[2021]DLNLC11184 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B050">RE: IN THE MATTER BETWEEN STEPHEN BOADU<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B050">And<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B050">IRAN CLINIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">[NLC]<o:p></o:p></span></b></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: 31pt 31pt 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 1.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow:yes"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Our Ref: NLC/C-401/219/2021/12E </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">DAT</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">E</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">17<sup>TH</sup> FEBRUARY, 2021</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">DIRECTOR, ADMIN /HR FOR COMMISSON: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">DR.BERNICE A. WELBECK <o:p></o:p></span></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">DIRECTIVE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:4.7pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:8.9pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.1pt;line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:90%">We refer to the Commission's sitting of Wednesday, 17<span style="position:relative;top:-3.0pt;mso-text-raise: 3.0pt">th </span>February, 2021 at which the parties appeared and<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">were<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt"> </span>heard.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.2pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:8.9pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:90%">The<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt"> </span>facts of<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>matter<span style="letter-spacing:.45pt"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing:.2pt"> </span>that:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.1pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-font-width:105%">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:90%">Complainant<span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span>was engaged<span style="letter-spacing:.15pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>one<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>year<span style="letter-spacing:.15pt"> </span>fixed<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>contract<span style="letter-spacing:.15pt"> </span>subject<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>renewal upon<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt"> </span>expiration.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.2pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:22.75pt;text-align:justify; text-indent:-13.45pt;line-height:107%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:22.9pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-font-width:105%">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:90%">As part of the terms of contract<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>the Complainant<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>who was a Security Officer</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:2.3pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:90%">was not supposed</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:2.35pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:90%">to receive<span style="letter-spacing:-2.5pt"> </span>or take any money from anybody or authority, and this he was fully aware of and signed to, but which he<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:95%">failed<span style="letter-spacing:.2pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>adhere<span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>it<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>thus<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>leading<span style="letter-spacing:.3pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the termination<span style="letter-spacing:.25pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>contract.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.2pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:23.25pt;text-align:justify; line-height:110%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:23.1pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-font-width:105%">3.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:90%">Complainant was caught on camera collecting money from a Police Officer, and Complainant claimed that<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>the said amount, a sum of GH¢100.00 was collected by him from the said Police Officer to be given to a<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:110%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Doctor<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>Respondent<span style="letter-spacing:.4pt"> </span>Clinic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><h1><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:95%">Findings</span></u><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></u></h1><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.4pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:10.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25pt;line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:90%">The Commission upon hearing the parties and examining the evidence before it finds that the Complainant<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>flouted the terms of his contract by taking or accepting money, which he claimed was given to him by a Police<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Officer<span style="letter-spacing:.25pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>Doctor<span style="letter-spacing:.3pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>Respondent<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> </span>Clinic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.35pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.65pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:10.3pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:95%">Ruling</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.2pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </s