THOMAS GUEADAM vs. ALHAJI AMADU BILLA

The Plaintiff claims against the defendant for an order to account for profits accruing from his investment of 1,500,000.00 CFA francs in their joint lumber export business from January, 2000 to date as well as interest. The facts of this case are quite interesting. According to the Plaintiff, he came to Ghana sometime in January, 2000 to invest his 1,500,000.00 CFA francs in the onion business, but the defendant who is a fellow Moshie man resident in Ghana convinced him to invest in the lumber business. The Plaintiff alleged that he handed over that money to the defendant for the two to undertake a joint lumber business. The two are alleged to have travelled to Mim to purchase lumber and had the same delivered to the defendant's customer at Kaya, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. On the blind side of the plaintiff, the said customer acting in concert with the defendant used the proceeds to buy "waakye" i.e. beans and sent the same to the defendant for sale in Ghana. After that transact...