BARCLAYS BANK LIMITED vs. GODSON AWORTWI DADZIE AND PHILIP NYATUAME

F.G. KORBIEH, J.A. The brief facts of this appeal, as narrated in the plaintiffs/respondents’ writ of summons and statement of claim are as follows: the plaintiffs/respondents are former employees of the defendant bank who rose to the position of retail manager and customer team manager respectively. They were both stationed at the Koforidua branch of the bank. On the 3/1/2008, a customer of the bank, by name “No One Can Know” (NOCK) went to the bank to withdraw a total of GH¢12.3 million by four separate cheques. The said customer’s representative, one Mr. Aikins, had been introduced to the Koforidua branch by the Okim Oda branch manager of the bank who had explained that the Akim Oda branch had cash problems and requested the Koforidua branch to assist the customer withdraw the money; thereafter the customer had been doing business with the Koforidua branch in accordance with the bank’s procedure for withdrawal of cash. So on the 3/1/2008, when Mr. Aikins called to say th...