S. S. AGBEMETSI AND GOLDENRAE CO. LTD. [2000]DLCHRAJ5842

Date	2000-11-08
Suit No.	Our Ref: CHRAJ/719/96/379
Citation No.	[2000]DLCHRAJ5842

BENJAMIN K. OPPONG

[2000]DLCHRAJ5842
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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">S. S. AGBEMETSI<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">GOLDENRAE CO. LTD.<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<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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Our Ref: CHRAJ/719/96/379&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 08/11/2000<o:p></o:p>

</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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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;text-align:center;
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</div>The
complaint is in fact 3 complaints rolled into one respectively entitled:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">1. GROSS INJUSTICE AND
INHUMAN TREATMENT<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">2. UNLAWFUL ARREST AND
DETENTION<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">3. TAKE OVER OF GOLDENRAE
BY F.M.O. BANK<o:p></o:p>The
complainant alleges wrongful termination of appointment for which he is
demanding payment of his entitlements and compensation.<o:p></o:p>The
complainant, 55 years of age and a retired Naval Chief Petty Officer of the
Ghana Armed Forces was employed by the respondent, a mining company in July
1990, as Chief Security Officer. Among his many responsibilities was Gold
transfer. According to him, he served the respondent with utmost honesty,
loyalty and devotion. As a result, when in about December 1993 the respondent
suffered a slump in its business and almost the entire workforce and staff,
including the expatriate Managers, packed bag and baggage and left with all
their entitlements paid to them, he was prevailed upon to stay on until the
liquidation of the company or, in the alternative, until the arrival of a new
investor to salvage the company.<o:p></o:p>In
about 1995, Dr. Piet Van Der Klyen, a consultant from F.M.O. Bank at the Hague
arrived and in some strange circumstances, according to the complainant, Dr.
Van Der Kylen announced to the complainant and the skeleton staff present that
he had taken over the respondent company and declared himself the new Managing
Director, and Mr. H. A. Morrison of K.P.M.G. as the Local Director of the
respondent company. The complainant, however, continued as before.<o:p></o:p>Then
all of a sudden, without any query or notice to him, the respondent wrote to
the complainant on February 27, 1996 terminating his appointment following a
theft of an old and abandoned container which was being investigated by the
police at-Kwabeng.<o:p></o:p>The complainant stated that the respondent
unlawfully terminated his appointment and yet refused to pay to him his
entitlements. He also stated that whiles the theft was still under
investigation, Dr. Van Der Klyen had him arrested and detained by the Police
and soon after left for his home country, Holland. For having him arrested the
complainant was demanding $5 million as compensation.<o:p></o:p>On
his release, according to him, he attempted legal proceedings against the
respondent but was unable to sustain the action due to financial constraints.<o:p></o:p><span</main>