BLAY WILLIAM AND GHANA COMMERCIAL BANK [2000]DLCHRAJ5738

Date	2000-10-11
Suit No.	Our Ref: CHRAJ/638/97/77
Citation No.	[2000]DLCHRAJ5738

C. A. OPOKU

[2000]DLCHRAJ5738
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B050">BLAY WILLIAM<o:p></o:p>(COMPLAINANT)<o:p></o:p>AND<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B050">GHANA COMMERCIAL BANK<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>(CHRAJ)<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>The
Complainant, Mr William Blay until his dismissal on 7th October, 1986 was the
Branch Manager of the Respondents at Breman Asikuma. In his petition dated 20th
October, he requested the Commission to prevail on the Respondents to pay his
gratuity, pension fund and provident fund contributions to him.<o:p></o:p>The
facts of the case are that the Complainant was sometime in 1986 arraigned
before the Public Tribunal on charges of fraud. Following his conviction and
sentence by the Tribunal the Complainant was dismissed from the Respondents'
employment.<o:p></o:p>In
the course of an interview held at the Offices of the Commission, the
Complainant conceded that his dismissal was as a result of his conviction and
pleaded for clemency. He accordingly requested the Commission to intervene on
his behalf on humanitarian grounds.<o:p></o:p>By
a letter dated 29th November, 1999, the Commission implored the Respondents to
reconsider the Complainant's case on humanitarian grounds.<o:p></o:p>In
the light of the Complainant's conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction
the Commission is unable to fault his dismissal on legal grounds and
accordingly considers its plea as the only possible recourse.<o:p></o:p>In
the circumstances the Commission discontinues further investigation into the
petition in accordance with Section 13 (1)(b) of the Commission on Human Rights
and Administration Justice Act 1993 (Act 456) which states:<o:p></o:p>

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investigation of any complaint it appears to the Commission - that having
regard to all the circumstances of the case, any further investigation is
unnecessary, it may refuse to investigate the matter further."<o:p></o:p></main>