BENJAMIN DUFFOUR vs. BANK OF GHANA

DORDZIE (MRS.) JSC:- Facts The plaintiff/appellant/ herein, was an employee of the defendant/respondent, Bank of Ghana. I will refer to the parties as plaintiff and defendant hereafter. The defendant allocated its premises, Block F, 2ndShippi Close East Cantonments to a number of its staff including the plaintiff for their occupation based on a license agreement. The plaintiff occupied Flat 3 in the said block F. In the year 2011, the bank needed to redevelop the said property; it therefore gave notice to the occupants including the plaintiff to relocate to an alternative accommodation the bank provided. All other staff of the bank who occupied block F moved out as instructed, except the plaintiff. Repeated warning letters were served on the plaintiff requiring him to move out but he refused. He maintained there was a license agreement between him and his employer, the terms of which he claimed entitled him to remain in the flat. After repeated written warnings and sanctions failed ...