SAMUEL ADUSEI
V.
FIDELITY BANK GHANA LIMITED
JUDGMENT
Plaintiff was Defendant’s employee between 2011 and 2015. Defendant is a banking institution operating in Ghana. In or about October, 2014, Plaintiff received an email to work jointly with another employee to purchase a generator for Defendant’s Ahodwo branch. Plaintiff averred that, a technical report on the existing generator was to be received from Defendant’s Mr George K. Boateng before the request to purchase could be processed.
Plaintiff stated that, he initiated the procurement process by requesting for quotations from three different vendors. He also stated that, before the receipt of the quotations he had followed up on the technical report from Mr Boateng on two occasions to no avail; he therefore did not have the authority to purchase the generator without the technical report. Plaintiff averred that, unknown to him and whilst waiting for the technical report, Mr Boateng had rented a generator for the Ahodwo branch with its attendant costs implications to…