HFC BANK (GHANA) LTD. vs. MOBILE OIL ENERGY RESOURCES & FRANCIS NYONYO [2018]DLHC9165

Date	2018-01-19
Suit No.	SUIT NO. CM/RPC/0444/17
Citation No.	[2018]DLHC9165

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE JENNIFER ABENA DADZIE

FUI S. TSIKATA ESQ. OF REINDORF CHAMBERS ADABRAKA ACCRA COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF/ APPLICANT

RALPH POKU-ADUSEI ESQ. OF MESSRS. ZOE AKYEA & CO. LABONE ACCRA COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS

[2018]DLHC9165
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >HFC BANK (GHANA) LTD.<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MOBILE OIL ENERGY RESOURCES &amp; FRANCIS NYONYO<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH 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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padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">SUIT NO.
CM/RPC/0444/17&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: 19TH JANUARY, 2018<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>FUI
S. TSIKATA, ESQ., OF REINDORF CHAMBERS, ADABRAKA, ACCRA, COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF/
APPLICANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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AKYEA &amp; CO., LABONE, ACCRA, COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS<o:p></o:p>

</div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP
JUSTICE JENNIFER ABENA DADZIE<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>The
Plaintiff/Applicant (hereinafter, the “Plaintiff”) brings this application
under Order 11 Rule 18(1) (a) of the High Court (Civil Procedure)
Rules, 2004 (C.I 47) praying for an order to strike out the Statement
of Defence and Counterclaim filed on behalf of the Defendants/Respondents
(hereinafter, the “Defendants”) for failing to disclose a reasonable defence to
the claim of the Plaintiff and any reasonable cause of action in their
counterclaim. <o:p></o:p>The procedural background to this case in
brief is as follows.&nbsp; On July 14, 2017,
the Plaintiff took out a Writ of Summons against the Defendants seeking the
following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>“a. an order for the payment of the sum of GH¢4,963,266.29
(four million nine hundred and sixty-three thousand two hundred and sixty-six
Ghana cedis and twenty-nine pesewas) being the amount due and owing as of 17
March 2017 on the U$2,000,000.00 letters of credit established&nbsp; for the 1st Defendant. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;
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text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; an order for the payment of the sum of
GH¢1,544,984.23 (one million five hundred and forty-four thousand nine hundred
and eighty-four Ghana cedis and twenty-three pesewas) being the amount due and
owing as of 17 March 2017 on GH¢5,2000,000 letters of credit established for
the 1st Defendant;<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;
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text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">c.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Interest on the amounts claimed in (a)
and (b) at the agreed rate of 35.25% per annum from 17 March 2017 until the
date of final payment.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;
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text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order for the judicial sale of the
Property being property numbered AZ 63, Airport Residential Area, Accra to
defray the amount claimed in (a) together with interest thereon;<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;
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text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">e.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Costs; and<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;
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&nbsp;Any further or other reliefs as to the Court
may seem meet.”<o:p></o:p>