THE REPUBLIC vs. BANK OF GHANA AND 5 OTHERS EX PARTE: BENJAMIN DUFFOUR [2017]DLCA5081

Date	2017-03-23
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO: H1/39/2017
Citation No.	[2017]DLCA5081

F. KORBIEH JA (PRESIDING)

A.M.A. DORDZIE (MRS.) JA.

M.M. AGYEMANG (MRS.) JA

KWAME FOSU GYEABOUR FOR APPLICANT / APPELLANT

KODJO ASARE-BOATENG FOR RESPONDENTS /RESPONDENTS

[2017]DLCA5081
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>BANK OF GHANA AND 5 OTHERS<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENTS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>EX
PARTE: BENJAMIN DUFFOUR (APPELLANT/APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION), 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: H1/39/2017&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: 23RD MARCH, 2017<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>KWAME FOSU
GYEABOUR FOR APPLICANT / APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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ASARE-BOATENG FOR RESPONDENTS /RESPONDENTS <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM: <o:p></o:p>F. KORBIEH JA (PRESIDING), A.M.A. DORDZIE (MRS.) JA., M.M. AGYEMANG
(MRS.) JA<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>AGYEMANG JA:<o:p></o:p>In this appeal against the judgment of the High
Court dated 14th day of July 2014, the appellant seeks the following
orders:<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order to set
aside the ruling of the High Court dated the 14th day of July 2015<o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order
convicting and punishing the respondent for contempt of court;<o:p></o:p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order for the
respondent to purge themselves of contempt. <o:p></o:p>These are the matters that have given rise to the
instant appeal.<o:p></o:p>The applicant/appellant (referred to as appellant)
was until the 7th of March 2014, an employee of the first
respondent/respondent, holding the official title of a Deputy Manager. The
first respondent/respondent (first respondent) is a financial institution
operating as the country’s Central Bank. The second, third, fourth, fifth, and
sixth respondents/respondents (referred to as the respondents) are employees
and officials of the first respondent. <o:p></o:p>As an official of the first respondent, the
appellant, like many others were placed in official residence at the licence of
the first respondent at H/No.2 1st Shippi Close, East Cantonments
(referred to hereafter as “the apartments”). The licence agreement under which
the appellant was placed in residence was dated 4th February 2005. <o:p></o:p>By a letter dated 25th of June 2011, the
first respondent asked the appellant to vacate the premises. This was said to
enable the apartments (described alternately by the first respondent as Flat 3
Block F, East Cantonments), to be redeveloped from staff living quarters to a
hospital for employees of the first respondent and the general public. The
appellant, like all other occupants, were to be relocated into alternative
staff housing provided by the first defendant. Following concerns raised by other
occupants, the first respondent changed the date of relocation from January
2012 to March 2012.<o:p></o:p>After the said date, all but the appellant left the
apartments and were duly relocated to new staff residence promised and provided
at Odorkor in Accra. The appellant however, in spite of several letters to him,
failed to vacate the premises, citing a breach of the licence agreement. By
reason of the said refusal, the first respondent’s hospital project could not
take off. <o:p></o:p>The appellant then commenced suit at the High
Court.<o:p></o:p>