EBENEZER AYENSU vs. MR. DAVID ASAMOAH BOADI , MR. MICHAEL EDWIN BREFO

The Plaintiff, Ebenezer Ayensu, was employed under a one-year foreign contract by the Defendants, electrical contractors operating in Liberia through Neural Link Engineering (NLE), to check illegal meter connections. During the project, the Plaintiff sustained serious injuries requiring surgery and a metal implant in his thigh. Following the Ebola outbreak, the Defendants allegedly abandoned the Plaintiff, failing to ensure his medical treatment and repatriation to Ghana. The Plaintiff claimed damages including medical care, pain and suffering, loss of amenities, and repatriation expenses. The Defendants denied abandonment, asserting they provided medical care and that the Plaintiff refused to cooperate with repatriation arrangements, also pleading statute-barred claims.

JUDGMENT DARKO ASARE JSC: 1. My Lords, the appeal before this Honourable Court stems from a judgment delivered by the Court of Appeal, Accra on the 7th of July 2022, wherein the Court made an award in favour of the Plaintiff/Appellant/Respondent for expenses incurred in his repatriation to Ghana, after the termination of his employment contract with the Defendants/Respondents/Appellants in Liberia. 2. For purposes of convenience, the Parties in these proceedings, shall bear the same designation that they bore in the trial court and accordingly the Plaintiff/Appellant/Respondent herein shall be described as the Plaintiff, whilst the Defendants/Respondents/Appellants herein as the Defendants FACTS 3. The Plaintiff’s claim arose from an employment contract for a term of one year from July 2012, by which he was engaged by the Defendants, a team of electrical contractors, through an organization by the name of Neural Link Engineering (NLE) which had won a contract in Liberia wit.....