ISAAC ALORMENU vs. GHANA COCOA BOAR [2020]DLHC10279

Date	2020-01-31
Suit No.	SUIT NO. IL/0119/2016
Citation No.	[2020]DLHC10279

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE ANANDA J. AIKINS

COUNSEL FOR THE PLAINTIFF: MR. MUNIRU M. KASSIM ESQ.

COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENDANT: MR. CHARLES AMENYAGLO ESQ.

[2020]DLHC10279
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ISAAC
ALORMENU<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>GHANA
COCOA BOAR<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
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padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">SUIT NO. IL/0119/2016&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;DATE:
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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mso-font-kerning:1.5pt">30TH JANUARY, 2020<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>COUNSEL FOR THE PLAINTIFF: MR. MUNIRU M. KASSIM<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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DEFENDANT: MR. CHARLES AMENYAGLO,<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;mso-font-kerning:1.5pt">HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE
ANANDA J. 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: 1pt 0cm;">

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</div>&nbsp;1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
THE DECISION<o:p></o:p>It is the opinion of this Court after a
careful consideration of all the evidence on record that the case of the
plaintiff is not made out and as such he is not entitled to the grant of any of
the reliefs he seeks against the defendant herein. The following write-up
embodies the reasons of this Court in coming to the above conclusion.<o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
BRIEF FACTS<o:p></o:p>The
pleadings of the parties show that the plaintiff was, at the time his
employment was terminated by the defendant in the year 2015, in the defendant’s
Seed Production Division (SPD) as an Accounts Manager. The plaintiff was
stationed at the head office of the defendant in Greater Accra. Sometime in
July 2014 the management of the defendant gave approval for the raising of
fifty million hybrid cocoa seedlings for the rehabilitation of moribund cocoa
farms.<o:p></o:p>As a result of this the Executive Director
of the defendant’s Seed Production Division (SPD) which is also known as the
Seed Production Unit (SPU) was informed to request for the procurement of the
required materials for the project. The total cost of the project was estimated
at three million Ghana cedis (GHȻ3,000,000.00) for top soil and four hundred
and fifty thousand Ghana cedis (GHȻ450,000.00) for fuel to cart the top soil
to the nursery sites of the defendant. Half of the total amount for the project
was released to the SPD to enable it carry out the project.<o:p></o:p>The plaintiff is alleged to have connived
with two contractors namely one Mr. Edward Opare and one Madam Theresah Akpene
Adanver to mobilise other contractors for the execution of the project without
any formal invitation from the SDP for interested contractors to tender or bid
for the supply of the top soil. The two named contractors are alleged to have
submitted quotations for the supply of the top soil based on a fixed rate which
was given them by the plaintiff. The two said contractors are alleged to have
fronted for a total of</main>