MADAM BERNICE KOSI AND ACCOUNTANT GENERAL'S DEPT. [2001]DLCHRAJ5953

Date	2001-07-19
Suit No.	Our Ref: CHRAJ/608/97/722
Citation No.	[2001]DLCHRAJ5953

BENJAMIN K. OPPONG

[2001]DLCHRAJ5953
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B050">MADAM BERNICE KOSI <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">ACCOUNTANT GENERAL'S DEPT.<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/608/97/722&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 19/07/2001<o:p></o:p>

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K. OPPONG DEPUTY COMMISSIONER LEGAL/OPERATIONS FOR COMMISSIONER<o:p></o:p>

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REVIEWED
DICISION<o:p></o:p>

</div>ORIGINAL DECISION<o:p></o:p>In
its decision No. CHRAJ/608/92/231 of 24th June, 1999, the Commission declared
that it found useful the "Guidelines for Determining PDD Petitions"
referenced OB/ADM/G/60/1 dated 20th September 1989 which was submitted to the
Pensions Computation Unit of the Accountant General's Department by the
erstwhile Office of the Ombudsman. Accordingly, the Commission ordered that:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
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said guidelines should be used in computing the pension benefits of late Mr.
Kosi for the surviving wife, the petitioner herein."<o:p></o:p>GROUNDS FOR REVIEW<o:p></o:p>In
her letter of 24th July, 2000, the Complainant indicated that after numerous
follow-ups to the Controller and Accountant-General's Department on the matter,
she was informed that her late husband's entitlements would be based on his
salary scale of 1971 when he died. The Complainant therefore appealed to the
Commission to request the Controller and Accountant-General to compute the
entitlements either on her late husband's present scale or at the current bank
interest rate. The Complainant further argued that the Guidelines to be used
for the computation came into being in 1989 and "so much devaluation of
the cedi has occurred since that time."<o:p></o:p>Again,
the Complainant stated in her letter of 2nd April, 2001 that she needed the
prompting of the Commission to enable the Controller and Accountant General's
Department to not only pay her the entitlements of her late husband, but do so
"on current salary rates or bank interest?"<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>GUIDELINES ON REVIEW<o:p></o:p>The
Commission's decisions are prone to review where:<o:p></o:p>