JON BONFUL vs. OBUASI MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY [2020]DLHC9171

Date	2020-05-11
Suit No.	SUIT NO. OCC/46/2017
Citation No.	[2020]DLHC9171

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE DR. RICHMOND OSEI-HWERE

BAFFOUR OKYERE SIABOUR FOR KWABENA POKU MENSAH FOR THE PLAINTIFF

HUMPHREY OMABOE FOR THE DEFENDANT.

[2020]DLHC9171
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >JON BONFUL
(DECEASED) SUING PER HIS LAWFUL ATTORNEYS YOOFI ACQUAH, VERONICA VAN-ESS AND
ENOCH KOJO BONFUL<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>OBUASI MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT (COMMERCIAL DIVISION), KUMASI]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT
NO. OCC/46/2017&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE:
11TH MAY, 2020<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>BAFFOUR
OKYERE SIABOUR FOR KWABENA POKU MENSAH FOR THE PLAINTIFF.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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HUMPHREY
OMABOE FOR THE 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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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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LORDSHIP JUSTICE DR. RICHMOND OSEI-HWERE, HIGH COURT JUDGE<o:p></o:p>

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JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>By a writ of summons and statement of
claim filed on the 23rd day of January 2017, the Plaintiff claimed
against the Defendant as follows:<o:p></o:p>(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A declaration that the date of
commencement of the Agreement signed sometime in 2009 during the National
Democratic Congress tenure in government but dated 1st June 2005 between the
plaintiff and the defendant for fifteen (15) years is indeed 1st June 2005 as
stipulated in Article 1.1 of the said agreement and not a contrary date as
forcefully asserted by the defendant.<o:p></o:p>(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A declaration that the decision of the
defendant announced at the 17th May 2016 meeting with the tenants of the
plaintiff at the conference room of the Assembly is unlawful, illegal and an
infraction of the plaintiff’s constitutional and common law rights.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order of the Honourable Court
compelling the defendant to adhere to the terms and stipulations of the
agreement dated 1st June 2005 but signed sometime in 2009 between the defendant
and the plaintiff.<o:p></o:p>(d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An injunction restraining the defendant,
its officers and persons acting through, or on their behalf, privies, assigns,
etc. from interfering with the management of the forty-seater water closet
facility and the thirty-nine lockable store facility which are both the
subjects of the Build, Operate and Transfer agreement signed sometime in 2009
but dated 1st June 2005 between the defendant and the plaintiff. <o:p></o:p>(e)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; General, special, punitive and exemplary
damages for the loss occasioned the plaintiff by the defendant as a result of
the communication made by its agents to the tenants of the plaintiff not to pay
rent to the plaintiff.<o:p></o:p>(f)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SUCH FURTHER ORDER(S) as the Honourable
court may deem fit.<o:p></o:p>On 2nd of February 2017, an
appearance was entered on behalf of the Defendant by its lawyers. The Defendant
subsequently filed a statement of defence and a counterclaim on the 15th
February, 2017. The Defendant counterclaimed against the Plaintiff as follows:<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The
balance outstanding against the plaintiff for unpaid ground rent being GHS
18,000.00.<o:p></o:p>2.