MAWULI KWAO vs. RORO SERVICE (GH.) LTD [2000]DLCA6506

Date	2000-10-26
Suit No.	CA. 98/99
Citation No.	[2000]DLCA6506

BENIN J.A. (Presiding)

TWUMASI J.A

FARKYE J.A

JOE CHARTEY FOR EFUA CHARTEY FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT

KWENYEHIA FOR DEFENDANT/APPELLANT

[2000]DLCA6506
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MAWULI KWAO<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>RORO SERVICE
(GH.) LTD<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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98/99&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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TWUMASI J.A, FARKYE J.A.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>BENIN,
J.A.: <o:p></o:p>The
plaintiff/appellant, an ex-employee of the defendant/respondent company, sued
his former employers seeking these reliefs:— <o:p></o:p>a)
General damages placed at large for breach of contract of employment.<o:p></o:p>b)
Declaration that plaintiff is entitled to be paid for injuries suffered on
board MV Kumasi at Apapa Port, Lagos on or about the 28th day of April 1991.<o:p></o:p>c)
Order that defendant company render proper accounts to determine sums due to
the plaintiff as stipulated in the company's memorandum of agreement with its
seafarers.<o:p></o:p>There
was also a statement of claim. In order to appreciate fully the actual relief
that the plaintiff was seeking from the court, I consider it necessary to set
out in extenso the statement of claim. It provides: <o:p></o:p>1.
Plaintiff is a seafarer who was until or about the 28th day of April 1991
employed as a motorman on board defendants’ vessel MV Kumasi. <o:p></o:p>2.
Defendant company are shippers and have extensive facilities in the port of
Tema and elsewhere. <o:p></o:p>3.
Plaintiff says he was on board the said vessel when in the morning (07. 30 -
08. 30 GMT) and in the course of discharging his duties sustained injury which
was very serious. <o:p></o:p>4.
Plaintiff says on the said date the MV Kumasi had set sail from the Nigerian
port of Apapa headed for Ghana. <o:p></o:p>5.
Plaintiff says when the injury was getting aggravated he was sent ashore by the
master of the vessel at Cotonou in the Republic of Benin where he was treated
by a Beninois doctor who recommended emergency surgery to be conducted by
doctors in Ghana. So the MV Kumasi sailed again for Ghana. <o:p></o:p>6.
Plaintiff says the Benin doctor recommended certain emergency medications which
plaintiff procured and paid for out of his own pocket. <o:p></o:p>7.
On arrival at the port of Tema plaintiff was met by the defendant’s crew
manager (Joe Parket) and took him in his personal car (crew manager's) and
drove him out of the harbour to the main harbour gate and left him out there to
fend for himself. <o:p></o:p>8.
Plaintiff says he took a taxi to his house in Accra and on the morrow he was
accompanied by a cadet friend of his and plaintiff’s wife to Bartor where
plaintiff was admitted in hospital for surgery the next day. <o:p></o:p>9.
Plaintiff says he personally paid for all the expenses involved. The Bator
doctors recommended continued out-patient treatment and so he went to Mamprobi
Polyclinic. <o:p></o:p>10.
Plaintiff says a copy of the doctor's report was sent to th</main>