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TOTAL PETROLEUM GHANA LTD
V.
BRIDGE CAPITAL PARTNERS

(2025) JELR 115940 (HC)

High Court 22 Jan 2025 Ghana
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Suit Number:CM/BDC/0426/2022
Judges:AFIA N. ADU-AMANKWA (MRS.) J.
Counsel:Caroline Addo, with Lorraine G. M. Ofori (holding Kwame Amenanor Tannor's brief), appears for the Plaintiff. Kafui Komla-Owusu (holding brief for Ismael Andani Abdulai) appears for the Defendant.
Location:Accra

JUDGMENT

INTRODUCTION

The plaintiff is a limited liability company engaged in procuring, distributing, and marketing petroleum and allied products. In 2018, the plaintiff offered to sublease and, in fact, subleased a portion of her Sakumono service station site known as the “Retail Centre” situate at Community 16 to the defendant for fifteen years. Pursuant to the sublease agreement, the defendant commenced the construction of a retail centre on the land with the understanding that she would pay a monthly rent of USD$4000.00. Under the sublease agreement, the plaintiff had the right to terminate the agreement upon the defendant’s failure to pay the agreed rent over a period of time. The plaintiff contends that the defendant has failed to pay rent in clear breach of the covenants contained in the sublease. Although the defendant applied and was granted a waiver of a part of her rent obligation in 2020 and was further granted a period to settle her rent, she failed to do so. The defendant…

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