KATE BIMPONG (PLAINTIFF) vs. PASTOR SAMPSON JOE BANING HEAD PASTOR LIVING TESTIMONIES FOR JESUS BIBLE (DEFENDANT) [2016]DLHC7661

KATE BIMPONG (PLAINTIFF) vs. PASTOR SAMPSON JOE BANING HEAD PASTOR LIVING TESTIM... [2016]DLHC7661

Date	2016-04-22
Suit No.	SUIT NO. BC 531/2014
Citation No.	[2016]DLHC7661

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE AFIA SERWAH ASARE-BOTWE (MRS.)

MR. CORNELIUS VITO FOR THE PLAINTIFF

MR. GEORGE ESHUN FOR THE DEFENDANT

[2016]DLHC7661
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KATE BIMPONG<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<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>PASTOR SAMPSON
JOE BANING HEAD PASTOR LIVING TESTIMONIES FOR JESUS BIBLE<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT (FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DIVISION 2), ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT
NO. BC 531/2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 22ND APRIL, 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR.
CORNELIUS VITO FOR THE PLAINTIFF <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MR.
GEORGE ESHUN FOR THE DEFENDANT <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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HER
LADYSHIP JUSTICE AFIA SERWAH ASARE-BOTWE (MRS.) <o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>The Plaintiff in her writ of summons and statement of claim filed
on the 5th of June, 2014, sued for the following reliefs; <o:p></o:p>(a) An order for general and specific damages
against the defendant for loss <o:p></o:p>of business as: <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.6pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;
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yes">(i) Hairdresser for the Defendant’s church
members from 1998 to 2002. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.6pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:
none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:
yes">(ii) Chop bar keeper for 2003. <o:p></o:p>(b) Order against the Defendant to pay all
unpaid salary due Plaintiff from 1998 to 2013 at GH₵200 (two hundred cedis) per
month. <o:p></o:p>(c) Interest on unpaid salary from 1998 to
2013 at the current bank rate. <o:p></o:p>(d) Damages for breach of promise of a car
and a house. <o:p></o:p>(e) Damages for defamation. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The gravamen of the Plaintiff’s case, as set out in her statement
of claim is that she used to be a member of the Defendant’s church, originally
engaged in a hairdressing venture in Cantonments, Accra. She says that she was
persuaded/ordered by the Defendant to move her hairdressing business to the
Defendant’s church premises/complex at Kasoa where she was expected to dress
the hair of the church’s workers who were resident at the premises known as the
Levites. <o:p></o:p>The Plaintiff claims that the Defendant promised to give her two
million cedis (₵2,000,000) monthly (now two hundred Ghana cedis (GH₵200) and that he would also buy
her a car and a house. The Plaintiff says that in accordance with what was
agreed she did the hair of the Levites free of charge, using her own equipment
and products. The Plaintiff says that in 2003, seeing that she had undertaken
the hairdressing for over four years without payment, she switched to operating
a chop bar at the church premises, but she was ordered to disengage herself
from that enterprise as it was unseemly of a pastor’s wife to keep a chop bar.
The promise was then made that she would be paid two hundred cedis (Gh₵