[2019]DLHC7560June 13, 2019High Court

ZENITH BANK GHANA LTD vs. BAKAN ENERGY GHANA LTD AND REALTY ADVISORS INC GOVERNMENT OF GHANA (GARNISHEE/J DEBTOR) RICHELLE ENERGY CO. LTD (1ST CLAIMANT) RICH OIL CO. LTD (2ND CLAIMANT)

On the 15th of April 2019, the claimants filed a notice of claim in respect of funds being held on their behalf by the National Petroleum Authority [NPA] in the NPA’s account with the Bank Of Ghana; which account is now the subject matter of a Garnishee Order Nissi issued by this court on the 25th of September 2018 in this suit in favor of the Plaintiff Judgment Creditor Zenith Bank. The claimants depose in an affidavit in support of their notice of claim that their claim is in respect of the amount of GHC4, 870,428.74 lodged in the NPA account NO. 101863152020208. Going further the claimants state that in Suit No. CM/BDC/0293/18, commenced by Sippi Logistics Ltd against the claimants, the plaintiffs, therein, obtained an Order for Preservation of funds by Payment into Court [exhibit RRC1]. By this order according to the claimants NPA was to pay all under recoveries due the 1st claimant into court pending the determination of the matter commenced by Sippi Logistics Ltd. According.....