S.K. MIREKU AND CHIEFTAINCY SECRETARIAT [2001]DLCHRAJ6071

Date	2001-05-31
Suit No.	Our Ref: CHRAJ/84/95/1996
Citation No.	[2001]DLCHRAJ6071

BENJAMIN K. OPPONG

[2001]DLCHRAJ6071
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B050">S.K. MIREKU<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;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B050">CHIEFTAINCY SECRETARIAT<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/84/95/1996&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 31/5/2001<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>ORIGINAL DECISION<o:p></o:p>The Commission pronounced in its decision
dated 12th May, 1997 that the termination of the Complainant's
appointment was improper and ordered as follows:<o:p></o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; border: none;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
 mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">Payment of three (3) years and six
 months salary as compensation from 17th September, 1988.<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; border: none;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
 mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">Payment of all allowances personal to
 his post together with gratuity and other retiring benefits up to 1st
 June, 1996 (date of his scheduled retirement).<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: justify; border: none;"><span style="font-size:
 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
 &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">If the awards above
 are not paid within three months of the date of this decision, they should
 begin to attract interest at the current bank rate.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol>GROUNDS FOR REVIEW<o:p></o:p>Between 26th November, 1997 and
29th January, 2001, the Complainant had sent numerous correspondence
to the Commission expressing his dissatisfaction with the award of three (3)
years and six months salary as compensation from 17th September,
1988 and the refusal of the Respondents to pay same. The Complainant also
stated that his gratuity had been recomputed and paid to him, but was unhappy
with certain deductions that the Pension Division of the Controller and
Accountant General's Department made from his gratuity.<o:p></o:p>In
his letter of 5th January, 1999 to the Commission, the Complainant
stated that his recomputed gratuity was ¢15,800,328.54 and attached a copy of a
Payment Voucher No. 202492 to authenticate same. The Voucher showed some
deductions in the sums of ¢933,188.30 and ¢2,903,998.16 respectively. The
¢933,188.30 represents gratuity covering the period 1953 to 1988 (when the
Complainant's appointment was terminated), while the ¢2,903,998.16 represents
monthly pensions for the period 1991 to the date the gratuity was paid.<o:p></o:p>However,
the Complainant contended in his letter of 26th November, 1997 that:<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">"...... if my
appointment was not wrongfully terminated, I would have enjoyed the full
salaries I was entitled to all over the years that I was put out of job. It is
my submission therefore that if your ruling had directed that all salaries due
me from September, 1988 be paid me, then there would be justi</main>