GEORGE D. ASANTE AND MIN. OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS [2001]DLCHRAJ6055

Date	2001-01-30
Suit No.	Our Ref: CHRAJ/525/96/493
Citation No.	[2001]DLCHRAJ6055

BENJAMIN K. OPPONG

[2001]DLCHRAJ6055
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B050">GEORGE D. ASANTE<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">MIN. OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS<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/525/96/493&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: 30/01/2001<o:p></o:p>

</div>commissioner:<o:p></o:p>BENJAMIN
K. OPPONG DEPUTY COMMISSIONER (LEGAL/OPERATIONS) FOR COMMISSIONER<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>On the 25th October 1985 the complainant
received a most distressing item of news under the signature of the PNDC
Secretary for Foreign Affairs at that time. The contents of the letter were:-<o:p></o:p>DISMISSAL FROM THE GHANA
FOREIGN SERVICE<o:p></o:p>The Ministry has carefully studied the
report on your financial transactions while serving at the Ghana High
Commission in Harare between 1980 and 1985 and is satisfied that you engaged in
financial and banking irregularities, which the Government of Zimbabwe had to bring
to the attention of the Government of Ghana. Your action and improper conduct
have caused considerable embarrassment to the Government of Ghana and you are
accordingly hereby dismissed from the Ghana Foreign Service forthwith.<o:p></o:p>2.
You are, however, to continue to report to the Commissioner of - Police, CID,
daily without fail until further notice."<o:p></o:p>In
July 1996, eleven (11) years after the event the complainant wrote to this
Commission to complain against his dismissal from the Foreign Service. This
claim was for compensation for wrongful dismissal and payment of all
entitlements, and pension and the return of a new Mercedes Benz 2000 taken away
from him.<o:p></o:p>It
is regrettable that the respondent failed to co-operate with the Commission.
Despite repeated demands the respondent refused to honour the Commission's call
for comments.<o:p></o:p>It
is a further regret of the Commission that it would not be of any assistance to
the complainant and the complaint must fail for the following reasons.<o:p></o:p>The dismissal of the complainant was an
act of the PNDC Government. It is therefore an executive act covered under the
Transitional Provision of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana Section 34(3) of the
said Provision provides:-<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
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For the avoidance of doubt, it is declared that no executive, legislative or
judicial action taken or purported to have been taken by the Provisional
National Defence Council or the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council or a member
of the Provisional National Defence Council or the Armed Forces Revolutionary
Council or by any person appointed by the Provisional National Defence Council
or the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council in the name of either the Provisional
National Defence Council or the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council shall be
questioned in any proceedings whatsoever and, accordingly, it shall not be
lawful for any court or other tribunal to make any order or grant any remedy or
relief in respect of any such act."<o:p></o:p>By the tenure of the above quoted
Provisions, this Commission and indeed no forum has any authority to hear or
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