[2019]DLHC9236 • November 28, 2019 • High Court
ATTA MENDS vs. TAKORADI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
The plaintiff, Atta Mends, was invited by Oppong Mensah, Development Officer of Takoradi Polytechnic (now Takoradi Technical University), and informed he had won a contract to undertake landscaping and gardening works at the Applied Arts Block. The plaintiff submitted an estimate of GHC18,919.00 and, lacking funds, was introduced to National Investment Bank by Oppong Mensah to secure a loan. Upon completion, the plaintiff was paid GHC8,645.00, leaving an outstanding balance of GHC10,274.00, which is the subject of this suit.
read morePer a writ of summons issued in the registry of this court on 22/01/2014, the plaintiff claims against the defendant, the reliefs set out hereunder: 1 Payment of Ghc10,274.00 as the remaining cost of the project cost of Ghc18,919.00; 2. interest on the said amount at the current bank rate till the date of payment; 3. costs. It was pleaded in the statement of claim accompanying the writ that sometime in or about January 2011, the plaintiff had a telephone call from a Oppong Mensah of Takoradi Polytechnic inviting him to his office. The said Oppong Mensah was the Development Officer of Takoradi Polytechnic at the time. Takoradi Polytechnic has since graduated into a full-fledged university and is now known and called Takoradi Technical University. It is the case of the plaintiff that when he responded to Oppong Mensah’s call, he was informed that he had won a contract to undertake a project of landscaping and gardening works at the Applied Arts Block of t.....