KODWO AGYEMAN T. GYAN AND C.E.P.S. [2000]DLCHRAJ5813

Date	2000-10-30
Suit No.	Our Ref: CHRAJ/93/2000/259
Citation No.	[2000]DLCHRAJ5813

BENJAMIN K. OPPONG

[2000]DLCHRAJ5813
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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">KODWO AGYEMAN T. GYAN<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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Our
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</div>COMMISSIONER:<o:p></o:p>BENJAMIN K. OPPONG DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
LEGAL/OPERATIONS<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
FACTS: <o:p></o:p>The complainant is a Principal Collector
with the respondent institution. On the 31 January 2000, he lodged a verbal
complaint against his transfer from Tema to Accra barely five months after his transfer
from Accra to Tema. He gave a catologue of transfers which he had been
subjected to, and concluded. That they had been punitive and calculated to
destabilize him and his family. He consequently appealed to the Commission to
restrain the Management of the respondent institution from carrying out the
latest transfer.<o:p></o:p>The
respondent on its part denied the allegation that the transfers were meant to
harass the complainant, and explained that it is the result of a general policy
to move its officers in the mainstream customs to different location after a
maximum of four (4) years at a station or collection. This policy, it further
explained was to ensure that officers acquire critical and varied experience
that spans the broad spectrum of customs operations<o:p></o:p>The
respondent stated further that movement or posting within Accra-Tema did not
constitute transfer in the normal sense of the word, but was a relocation. For
that matter it does not go with the normal transfer grant.<o:p></o:p>Finally
the respondent accused the complainant of having a track record of being
recalcitrant and unaccommodating, and urged the Commission to vacate its
earlier order to stay the respondent's decision to move the complainant from
Tema to the Accra Collection.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>MEDIATION
<o:p></o:p>Finding mediation a better option, the
Commission resorted to that to achieve a quick resolution of the matter. The
Deputy Commissioner (Legal and Operations) and a Legal officer of the
Commission proceeded to the premises of the respondent institution where they
met with the Commissioner and his team of senior officers. At the mediation
caucus the Commissioner raised a number of issues, notable among which were:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.95pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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That the complainant had
failed to respond to his invitation. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
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That the complainant had also
refused to wear uniform.<o:p></o:p>