KORSAH J.: Julius Bessah Hormeku was an employee of the Ghana Prisons Service. His conditions of employment included a provision that in cases of misconduct or unsatisfactory service, disciplinary proceedings shall be conducted against him. Such disciplinary proceedings shall be summary or commence with a written charge preferred against the alleged offender; it shall enable the defendant in formal proceedings to call appropriate witnesses; it shall enable persons to be compellable to give evidence or produce exhibits in formal proceedings; and it shall enable the defendant in any proceedings before the Director of Prisons or other superior prisons officer or before the disciplinary board to appeal to the Prisons Service Board within six weeks against any decision involving the imposition of a penalty and providing that such penalty shall not take effect until the appeal is determined: see section 19 of the Prisons Service Decree, 1972 (NRCD 46).
On 22 July 1980 Julius Bessah Hormeku w…