AUGUSTINE MAC-HUBERT GABLA vs. THE DIRECTOR GENERAL, GHANA EDUCATION SERVICE AND THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, MINISTRY OF JUSTICE [2019]DLHC10185

AUGUSTINE MAC-HUBERT GABLA vs. THE DIRECTOR GENERAL, GHANA EDUCATION SERVICE AND... [2019]DLHC10185

Date	2019-06-26
Suit No.	SUIT NO.INDL/66/2015
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC10185

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE ANANDA JULIANA AIKINS

MR VICTOR KWESI OPEKU ESQ.

ADWOA O.OBENG ESQ.

[2019]DLHC10185
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >AUGUSTINE MAC-HUBERT GABLA<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>THE DIRECTOR GENERAL, GHANA
EDUCATION SERVICE AND THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, MINISTRY OF JUSTICE<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

</div>COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p>MR VICTOR
KWESI OPEKU, ESQ.<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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O.OBENG, ESQ. <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HER
LADYSHIP JUSTICE ANANDA JULIANA AIKINS<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 27pt 0cm 1pt;">

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</div>&nbsp;THE DECISION<o:p></o:p>After a careful consideration of all the
evidence on record, this Court believes that the plaintiff herein is entitled
to judgment on all the reliefs he seeks against the defendants herein and
judgment is thus entered for the plaintiff on the said reliefs save for the
relief of interest at the prevailing commercial bank rate on all arrears of
salary due and owing to the plaintiff. The reasons for the Court coming to the
above conclusion will be demonstrated presently.<o:p></o:p>FACTS<o:p></o:p>The facts of this case are that the
plaintiff is a trained teacher and was employed by the 1st defendant
in 1994 after the completion of his teacher training education and he worked
for the 1st defendant for a period of 19 years during which he rose
through the ranks to the position of an Assistant Director II in the year
2012.&nbsp; The 1st defendant is
the Government of Ghana’s institution responsible for the employment of
teachers for Public Schools and the 2nd defendant is the legal
advisor to the Government of Ghana and is also the Counsel for the government
in all legal suits that are instituted against the Government.<o:p></o:p>The plaintiff worked with the 1st
defendant in various capacities. In the year 2012 the plaintiff was the
Statistics Officer of the 1st defendant stationed at Winneba in the
Municipal Directorate or Office of the 1st defendant.&nbsp; In November that same year the plaintiff was
transferred from the education office back to the classroom at the Anglican A/B
Primary School, Winneba, where he taught class 5.<o:p></o:p>Later on in December, 2013 an embargo was
placed on the plaintiff’s salary by the 1st defendant and the
plaintiff made efforts to have the embargo lifted by the 1st
defendant but the efforts of the plaintiff yielded no favorable response from
the 1st defendant hence the resort of the plaintiff to this Court
claiming some reliefs against the defendants as follows: <o:p></o:p>RELIEFS
SOUGHT BY PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p>a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order
that the plaintiff has been constructively dismissed and that the said
dismissal was unlawful, capricious and against the fundamental rights to
natural justice of the plaintiff enshrined in the 1992 Constitution.<o:p></o:p>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order
that the said removal from the Service is a breach of Articles 23,190(1)(a)and
191(a) and (b), and Article 296 of the 1992 Constitution.<o:p></o:p>c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
That the
said unlawful removal is also a breach of the disciplinary provisions in
Section 19 of the Ghana Education Service Act, 1995, (Act 506).<o:p></o:p>