WEOLI KEMEVOR vs. CHRISTOPHER AGORKPA [2018]DLHC9195

Date	2018-05-04
Suit No.	SUIT NO. CM/RPC/0483/17
Citation No.	[2018]DLHC9195

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE JENNIFER ABENA DADZIE

KOFI KUKUBOR ESQ. OF KPATSA & ASSOCIATES WORLANYO CHAMBERS ACCRA COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF

JOSEPH TURKSON ESQ. OF DOKUA CHAMBERS ACCRA COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT

[2018]DLHC9195
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >WEOLI
KEMEVOR<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>CHRISTOPHER
AGORKPA<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<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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</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>KOFI KUKUBOR, ESQ., OF KPATSA &amp; ASSOCIATES,
WORLANYO CHAMBERS, ACCRA, COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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ESQ., OF DOKUA CHAMBERS, ACCRA, COUNSEL FOR 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 JENNIFER ABENA DADZIE<o:p></o:p>

</div>JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The Plaintiff, a retired civil
servant, asserts by his pleadings and his testimony before this Court that he
entered into an agreement with the Defendant, a businessman, sometime in
January 2011 by which he granted the Defendant upon his request two (2) separate
amounts of Fifty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢50,000.00) and Twenty Thousand United
States Dollars (US$20,000.00) to enable the Defendant execute certain
government contracts he had been awarded, specifically, to construct school
buildings and supply school furniture as well to the said schools after
construction.&nbsp; The loan was to be repaid
after one year, that is, by January 2012, according to the Plaintiff.&nbsp; After the expiration of the term of the loan,
the Plaintiff claims he made a demand for the repayment of same but the
Defendant only paid a total of Thirty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢30,000.00) and
thereafter, started giving him all kinds of excuses, including claims that he
had not yet been paid for the works he had executed or that payment was still
being processed.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>Plaintiff then avers that after his
numerous attempts to retrieve the outstanding balance due failed, he instructed
his lawyers to write a demand notice to the Defendant sometime in June 2017.
Plaintiff states that the Defendant has till date refused to respond to the
demand notice and so believing that it is only this Honourable Court that can
compel the Defendant to repay the outstanding balance due, the Plaintiff sued
the Defendant on July 7, 2017 claiming the following reliefs as endorsed on his
Writ of Summons:<o:p></o:p>“(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The sum
of Twenty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢20,000.00) and Twenty Thousand United States
Dollars (US$20,000.00) being the amounts due and owing.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;
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150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The prevailing commercial bank interest rate on the
said amounts (GHS 20,000.00) and (US$20,000.00) from January, 2012 to the date
of final payment.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;
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150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Nominal damages<o:p></o:p>