WEOLI KEMEVOR vs. CHRISTOPHER AGORKPA

The Plaintiff, a retired civil servant, asserts by his pleadings and his testimony before this Court that he entered into an agreement with the Defendant, a businessman, sometime in January 2011 by which he granted the Defendant upon his request two (2) separate amounts of Fifty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢50,000.00) and Twenty Thousand United States Dollars (US$20,000.00) to enable the Defendant execute certain government contracts he had been awarded, specifically, to construct school buildings and supply school furniture as well to the said schools after construction. The loan was to be repaid after one year, that is, by January 2012, according to the Plaintiff. After the expiration of the term of the loan, the Plaintiff claims he made a demand for the repayment of same but the Defendant only paid a total of Thirty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢30,000.00) and thereafter, started giving him all kinds of excuses, including claims that he had not yet been paid for the works he had executed.....