MARTIN ALAMISI AMIDU vs. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, WATERVILLE HOLDINGS (BVI) LTD AND ALFRED AGBESI WOYOME [2013]DLSC2759

MARTIN ALAMISI AMIDU vs. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, WATERVILLE HOLDINGS (BVI) LTD AND... [2013]DLSC2759

Date	2013-06-14
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. JI/15/2012
Citation No.	[2013]DLSC2759

DR. DATE-BAH JSC (PRESIDING)

ANSAH JSC

ADINYIRA (MRS) JSC

OWUSU (MS) JSC

DOTSE JSC

ANIN YEBOAH JSC

BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC

GBADEGBE JSC

AKOTO-BAMFO (MRS) JSC

PLAINTIFF APPEARS FOR HIMSELF.

MRS. DOROTHY AFRIYIE-ANSAH (CHIEF STATE ATTORNEY) FOR THE 1ST DEFENDANT.

KOFI PEASAH- BOADU (WITH HIM DORA OCQUAYE-NORTEY) FOR THE 2ND DEFENDANT.

OSAFO- BUABENG FOR THE 3RD DEFENDANT.

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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MARTIN ALAMISI AMIDU<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>THE ATTORNEY GENERAL,
WATERVILLE HOLDINGS (BVI) LTD AND ALFRED AGBESI WOYOME<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[SUPREME COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL APPEAL NO. JI/15/2012&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 14TH JUNE, 2013<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>PLAINTIFF APPEARS FOR
HIMSELF.<o:p></o:p>MRS. DOROTHY AFRIYIE-ANSAH
(CHIEF STATE ATTORNEY) FOR THE 1ST DEFENDANT.<o:p></o:p>KOFI PEASAH- BOADU (WITH
HIM DORA OCQUAYE-NORTEY) FOR THE 2ND DEFENDANT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DR. DATE-BAH JSC (PRESIDING), ANSAH JSC, ADINYIRA
(MRS) JSC, OWUSU (MS) JSC, DOTSE JSC, ANIN YEBOAH JSC, BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC,
GBADEGBE JSC, AKOTO-BAMFO (MRS) JSC<o:p></o:p>

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</div>DR DATE-BAH JSC:<o:p></o:p>The facts<o:p></o:p>To the joy of the
many lovers of soccer in Ghana, Ghana won,in July 2004,the right to host the
2008 African Cup of Nations football tournament, popularly known as CAN
2008.&nbsp; This case is about one of the
consequences of Ghana’s successful bid to host CAN 2008.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As a result of winning the right to host
CAN 2008, the Government of Ghana became obliged to rehabilitate football
stadia and other sporting facilities in Ghana.&nbsp;
In order to fulfill this obligation, it set in motion in January 2005 a
procurement process for the award of appropriate contracts in accordance with
the Public Procurement Act, 2003 (Act 663).<o:p></o:p>Vamed Engineering
Gmbh &amp; CO KG (referred to subsequently as ‘Vamed’) was one of the companies
which submitted a tender for the award of a contract to rehabilitate the stadia
specified by the Government of Ghana.&nbsp;
Vamed became one of two companies which were shortlisted by the
Government’s evaluation committee.&nbsp; Meanwhile,
by a letter dated 1st July 2005, Vamed purported to assign all its
rights and obligations in the CAN 2008 stadia tender and another specified
project to the second defendant.&nbsp; The
second defendant, by an undated letter from Andrea Orlandi, a director of the
company, to Vamed accepted this purported assignment.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>The relevant
Entity Tender Committee recommended Vamed/Waterville to the Central Tender
Review Board for the award of the contract because its tender<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;was in their view the most competitive.&nbsp; The Central Tender Review Board on 5th
August 2005 gave “concurrent approval for the award of the contract to Messrs VAMED
Engineering.”&nbsp; However, by a letter dated
22nd August 2005 addressed to the Managing-Director of Vamed, the
Minister for Education,Youth and Sports purported to terminate the procurement
process “due to the high commitments implied in the submissions, the
inconclusive and the non-assuring nature of the financial submissions”.&nbsp; The second defendant made several protests to
Government in respect of this purported abrogation.&nbsp; It entered into negotiation with Government
regarding the purported abrogation which resulted in a Memorandum of
Understanding between them on 30th November 2005.&nbsp; The MOU stated that the Government would
award the Ohene Djan and El Wak stadia project on a turnkey basis to the second
defendant.<o:p></o:p>On
26th April, 2006 the Government of Ghana signed two separate but
similar agreements with the second defendant for the rehabilitation of the
Ohene Djan and El Wak stadia in Accra and the Baba Yara stadium in Kumasi,
respectively.&nbsp; These two agreements both
expressly specified conditions precedent to their coming into force.&nbsp; Clause 17 of the agreements stated as
follows:<o:p></o:p>“17.1&nbsp;&nbsp; This contract shall become effective at the
date of the fulfillment of all of the following conditions:<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 17.1.1&nbsp; Signing of the Contract by all Parties<o:p></o:p>v&nbsp; Signing
of the Loan Agreement relating to the Contract by the Minister for Finance and
Economic Planning.<o:p></o:p>