KUMASI METROPOLITAN ASSEMBLY AND WASTE MANAGEMENT vs. MESSRS FREKO FD ENTERPRISE LTD. [2017]DLCA5181

KUMASI METROPOLITAN ASSEMBLY AND WASTE MANAGEMENT vs. MESSRS FREKO FD ENTERPRIS... [2017]DLCA5181

Date	2017-05-23
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO.: H1/82/2016
Citation No.	[2017]DLCA5181

AYEBI J.A. (PRESIDING)

TORKORNOO (MRS) J. A.

DOMAKYAAREH (MRS) J. A.

COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT/APPELLANT - VALANTINE BOAMAH

COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF/ RESPONDENT-ADOMAKO KWAKYE WITH SHADRACK YEBOAH OBENG

[2017]DLCA5181
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KUMASI METROPOLITAN ASSEMBLY AND WASTE MANAGEMENT &nbsp;<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MESSRS FREKO FD ENTERPRISE LTD.
<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/
RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<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.: H1/82/2016&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: 23RD MAY, 2017<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>COUNSEL FOR
DEFENDANT/APPELLANT - VALANTINE BOAMAH&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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COUNSEL
FOR PLAINTIFF/ RESPONDENT-ADOMAKO KWAKYE WITH SHADRACK YEBOAH OBENG&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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AYEBI
J.A. (PRESIDING), TORKORNOO (MRS) J. A., DOMAKYAAREH (MRS) J. A.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>TORKORNOO (MRS), J.A.<o:p></o:p>The Defendant/Appellant
Assembly entered into an agreement with the Plaintiff/Respondent Company to
build, operate and transfer 20-seater, water closet facilities at 61 sites in
the city of Kumasi. The agreement was first signed in 2000, accepted as
repudiated in March 2004 and renewed with amendments in November 2004. <o:p></o:p>In
paragraph 10 (13) of its Amended Statement of Claim, the Respondent averred
that it ‘…duly commenced the building of
the said toilet facilities at the following 61 sites selected by the defendant’
and went on to name the sites. However, in paragraph 15 of the Amended
Statement of Claim, it gave details of only 16 facilities it had completed and
operated at the time of commencing the action in 2012. Then in paragraph 20, it
set out four other facilities that had been completed but were not operational
and fifteen facilities that had been started but were uncompleted, thereby
presenting that it actually executed building works on only 35 out of the 61
sites <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Its Managing
Director and representative called Mrs. Freda Darko led evidence in support of Respondent’s
case, stating that the Respondent had constructed the 16 toilet facilities on
13 of the sanitary sites because 3 sites had been found large enough to
accommodate 2 toilet facilities. The list and pictures of the 16 sites can be
found in Exhibit G series on pages 1001-1017 of the Record of Appeal. The Respondent’s
explanation for the inability to complete construction on all 61 sites between
2000 and 2012 when it commenced the action was that the Appellant acted in
breach of various contractual provisions and through that, repudiated the
agreement. These acts were listed in extensor in paragraph 13 of its Amended
Statement of Claim. Consequently, the Respondent sued the Appellant for various
heads of damages and claimed <o:p></o:p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Judgment for GH¢32,787,363.84 damages
being 10 year profit or a return on capital investment due to Plaintiff from
the 1st defendant upon breach of agreement.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Special damages of GH¢2,289,031.45,
being balance of unrecovered cost of the investment made by the Plaintiff for
the 10-year period beginning 1st August 2012.<o:p></o:p>