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KINGSLEY DARKO
V.
GHANA COCOA BOARD

(2015) JELR 107609 (HC)

High Court 15 Dec 2015 Ghana
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- The plaintiff was an employee of the defendant from January 1992 until May 2014 when his employment was terminated. - The plaintiff claimed that appointments to positions within the defendant were supposed to be made from serving employee

Case Details

Suit Number:SUIT No. INDL/99/14
Judges:JUSTICE GIFTY DEKYEM
Counsel:AKOTO AMPAW ESQ for Plaintiff; CHARLES AMENYAGLO ESQ for Defendant.

JUDGMENT

DEKYEM, J.

Plaintiff averred per his statement of claim that he was Defendant’s employee  from 15th January 1992 until 29th May 2014 when his employment was  terminated; his last position being Deputy Intelligence Manager. Plaintiff  contended that per clause 1 of section A of the Conditions of Service for Senior  Staff, appointments to positions in Defendant were to be made from serving  employees and this is done through internal advertisements on Defendant’s  notice board. Plaintiff averred that without any advertisement on the notice board or indeed to the public at large, it came as a surprise to him when in April  2014, he had information from some members of staff that Defendant was about  to conduct interviews for the positions of Intelligence Manager, Deputy  Intelligence Manager and Senior Security Officer. Plaintiff averred that having a  legitimate interest in the matter he made enquiries from a staff at the Human  Resource Department by name Ophelia Ampomah whethe…

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