MARION B. OWUSU AND GHANA RAILWAY CORPORATION [2000]DLCHRAJ5773

Date	2000-08-08
Suit No.	Our Ref: CHRAJ/723/96/1200
Citation No.	[2000]DLCHRAJ5773

C. A. OPOKU

[2000]DLCHRAJ5773
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B050">MARION B. OWUSU <o:p></o:p>(COMPLAINANT)<o:p></o:p>AND<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B050">GHANA RAILWAY CORPORATION <o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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Our
Ref: CHRAJ/723/96/1200&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; &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; DATE: 8/08/2000<o:p></o:p>

</div>commissioner:<o:p></o:p>C. A. OPOKU DEP. CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#111100">COMMISSIONER<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DECISION<o:p></o:p>

</div>By her complaint dated 31st October, 1996, Madam Marion B. Owusu
requested the Commission to compel the respondent to prepare the necessary
documents for her to enable her claim survivors benefit for her child: Esi
Antobam Cudjoe.<o:p></o:p>The Complainant alleged that, the child in question was the
posthumans child of the late John Norman Kingsley Cudjoe. The Complainant
further alleged that, the said John Norman Kingsley was her husband. He died on
20th June 1988. He was an employee of the Ghana Railway Corporation at the time
of his death.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Efforts on her part to
claim suvivors benefit in respect of the child in question had failed. This is
because the respondent had refused to prepare the necessary documents for
claim.<o:p></o:p>The respondents were contacted
and they sent the required documents to the Commission for onward transmission
to the Complainant.<o:p></o:p>The Complainant was asked to come and collect them but she did not
turn up. The Commission send another reminder to her (and a copy of the
documents were attached) with a notice that if she does not show up for the
documents by 17th December 1998 the Commission will cease further dealing with
her complaint.<o:p></o:p>The complainant did not turn up as scheduled, hence the Commission
decides not to investigate this matter any further in accordance with
Regulation 2 (4) of C.1 No.7 which states<o:p></o:p>"Where a complaint lodged
with the Commission is not pursued for three months from the date it is lodged,
the complaint shall lapse thereafter."<o:p></o:p>