Susu Company sues Bank of Ghana and four others
Ten members of Islamic Mission cited for contempt of court
Susu Company sues Bank of Ghana and four others
Accra (Greater Accra) 14 June ’99
Brotherly Link Limited, a company which deals in Mega-Susu scheme, and its four directors have filed a writ at an Accra High Court against the Bank of Ghana (BOG) for causing a libellous and defamatory article to be published against them.
Mega-Susu is a scheme, under which a group of people called "contributors" pool resources for a member, who benefits from a fixed amount at a given point in time.
In their writ, the plaintiffs are claiming general damages for libel and defamatory article published in the "Daily Graphic" on June one, which imputed criminal and fraudulent intentions to their operations.
Mr Clint Dickoh, Mr Seth Anim Amanor, Mr Stephen Buckman Okyere and Mr Wisdom Ebow Panford are the directors.
Defendants mentioned in the writ are, BOG, Mr D. O. Andah, Director of Non-banking Institutions Department of BOG, the Graphic Corporation, Mr Yaw Ayeboafoh, Acting Editor of the Graphic and Golden Neo Life Diamite International, a foreign-based company.
No date has been fixed for hearing.
The plaintiffs are seeking a court order to restrain the defendants from repeating the libellous statements or publications concerning them.
They are again claiming damages for libel and defamation, "punitive and exemplary damages for the reckless and destructive manner the defendants have gone about so sensitive an issue, which made them to lose their customers".
The plaintiffs are seeking a court's order to compel the defendants to publish at their own expense, four consecutive editions in the same medium used, a retraction and or withdrawal of the article and render an unqualified apology.
Mr Thomas Nuako Ward-Brew is the counsel for the plaintiffs.
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Ten members of Islamic Mission cited for contempt of court
Kumasi(Ashanti), 14th June 99 -
The Ghana Muslim Mission (GMM) has filed a writ for contempt against Sheikh Adam Mohammed Appeadu, founder and leader of the Islamic Mission and nine others at a Kumasi High Court.
The GMM in a statement prayed the court to commit the respondents for disobedience and breach of the orders of a Kumasi Circuit Court dated May 31, 1995 and the Court of
Appeal dated February 12, last year.
Other reliefs sought by the GMM are that the respondents broke into House Number 17 and 29, Block two at Ampabame, Kumasi, which is in dispute, took possession and occupied it after bailiffs of a Kumasi Circuit Court had duly gone to execute the court's order on May seven, this year.
The writ said the respondents have by their action and conduct not only shown gross disrespect and disregard for the judgements and orders of the Circuit and Appeal Courts, but have also brought the processes of the Courts into disrepute and tended to obstruct the administration of justice.
The Islamic Mission in 1989 sued the GMM claiming ownership of the house in dispute which they described as its Ashanti Regional Mission House.
The GMM counter-claimed for ownership of the same building which they also described as its Ashanti and Brong Ahafo Regional Mission House.
On May 31, 1995, a Kumasi Circuit court presided over by Mr Justice K. K. Acquaye dismissed the claim of the Islamic Mission and granted judgement for the GMM for declaration of title to the Mission house and for recovery of possession and perpetual injunction.
The Islamic Mission appealed against the Circuit Court's decision to the Court of Appeal which dismissed it on February 12 last year.
A motion for stay of execution of the Court of Appeal's judgement filed by the Islamic Mission was withdrawn and struck out with 400,000 cedis cost against the Islamic Mission on January 26, this year when counsel for the Islamic Mission conceded to a preliminary objection raised by counsel for the GMM.
The Islamic Mission subsequently filed a motion at the Supreme Court seeking leave to appeal against the Court of Appeal's judgement. However on March nine, this year, counsel for the Islamic Mission filed a notice of withdrawal of the appeal.
The statement said following the notice of withdrawal of the Appeal, by the Islamic Mission, the Registrar of the Court of Appeal formally notified the Registrar of the Kumasi Circuit Court, the trial court, of the result of the Appeal and returned the original docket to the Circuit Court to certify the conclusion of the Appeal proceedings in the case.
It said the GMM, intending to enforce the decisions of both the trial court and the Court of Appeal as to the order of recovery of possession of the house in dispute filed a motion for writ of possession on April 30, this year, which was granted by Mr Justice Baffoe Bonnie presiding over a Kumasi Circuit Court.
The statement said upon the order of the court, bailiffs of the Circuit Court on May Seven, this year, evicted the Islamic Mission officials then in occupation and possession of the house in dispute, and fastened the doors with new locks.
It said after the bailiffs had left the premises, the respondents forcibly broke into the house in dispute and went back into occupation and possession of the house.
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