ESSIEM J.A.
The facts in this case may be stated briefly as follows: the defendant-corporation was the tenant of the Tema Development Corporation in respect of certain houses which the defendant used as duty post houses for its employees. The property involved in this litigation is one of such houses.
In 1968 the plaintiff who was then an employee of the defendant stationed at Akosombo, was transferred to Tema. He was given the house in dispute as his duty post house by the defendant-corporation. Rents in respect of the premises were deducted at source by the defendant-corporation which in turn paid the rent due to the Tema Development Corporation.
During the term of office of the erstwhile Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, i.e. June-August 1979, that government directed that all government employers should cease renting houses for their employees. The government further directed that all employees should be paid a monthly rent allowance of twenty per cent of their salary. It appears t…