JONAS KWAMI DZAKAH (PLFF/RESPONDENT) vs. AKOSOMBO TEXTILES LIMITED AND E. K. DARKO (DEFENDANT) [2011]DLCA7907

JONAS KWAMI DZAKAH (PLFF/RESPONDENT) vs. AKOSOMBO TEXTILES LIMITED AND E. K. DAR... [2011]DLCA7907

Date	2011-02-17
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO.: H1/185/2010
Citation No.	[2011]DLCA7907

HENRIETTA ABBAN (MRS.) J.A. (PRESIDING)

P. K. GYAESAYOR J.A.

E. K. AYEBI J.A.

[2011]DLCA7907
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >JONAS KWAMI DZAKAH<o:p></o:p>(PLFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>AKOSOMBO TEXTILES LIMITED AND E. K. DARKO<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">CIVIL APPEAL NO.:&nbsp;
H1/185/2010&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 17TH FEBRUARY, 2011<o:p></o:p>

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HENRIETTA
ABBAN (MRS.) J.A. (PRESIDING), P. K. GYAESAYOR J.A., E. K. AYEBI J.A.<o:p></o:p>

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JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>AYEBI J.A.<o:p></o:p>This is an appeal by the defendants hereinafter
referred to as the appellants from the judgment of an Accra Circuit Court dated
15th July, 2008.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The plaintiff now to be referred to as the
respondent was a deputy supervisor in the Engraving Section of the 1st
respondent, a well-known textiles manufacturing company.&nbsp; The 2nd respondent is the
personnel manager of the 1st respondent company.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The underlying facts which precipated this action
by the respondent is instructive.&nbsp; The
respondent on 6th June 2006 applied for and collected 20 pieces of
copper plates from the stores.&nbsp; Inside
the yard of the 1st appellant is a rubbish dump where
garbage/rubbish generated by the 1st appellant’s activities are
dumped and collected for disposal by Volta River Authority refuse trucks.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In the morning of 9th June 2006,
security personnel detailed in the parking yard discovered 21/2 (two and a
half) bars of imported copper bars and 2 (two) locally manufactured copper
plates in a fertilizer sack.&nbsp; The sack was
placed in an open iron drum and covered with waste pieces of calico, cotton,
discarded polythene and Fante Kenkey leaves.&nbsp;
The contents of this drum is thus presented as rubbish and placed beside
two other iron drums.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The management of 1st respondent traced
the source of the copper plates to the Engraving Section of the Printing and
Dyeing Department, the only section which uses copper anodes and plates.&nbsp; The management tasked the security section to
investigate the matter.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>It is said before investigation could commence,
Aaron Owusu of the Engraving Section informed his supervisor that upon the
instruction of David Asare, also of the same section, he pushed the said drum
to the rubbish dump.&nbsp; When David Asare
was accosted, he mentioned the respondent herein as the master brain behind the
deal.&nbsp; The respondent was also confronted
and statements taken from all of them.&nbsp;
They were then charged with the theft of the copper plates.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Following that, a Disciplinary Committee was set
up to establish the extent of involvement of each of them and make appropriate
recommendations.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The Disciplinary Committee chaired by 2nd
respondent in his capacity as the Personnel Manager sat and heard the case of
the three suspects and other staff from the Engraving Section.&nbsp; At the end of the day, the committee found
the respondent and David Asare “guilty of colluding to steal the copper bars
and plates”.&nbsp; It recommended their
dismissal with benefits.&nbsp; The Committee
saw the role of Aaron Owusu as that of an innocent victim and recommended that
he be suspended for two weeks without pay for withholding the information from
management when the deal surfaced.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>