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Paramount Chief of Prampram drags
Football Association to court
Tema, July 04, Ghanadot/GNA - Nene Tetteh
Djan III, Paramount Chief of the Prampram Traditional
Council has moved an ex-parte motion on Thursday at the Tema
High Court to compel the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to
pay GH¢2,000 out of a GH¢3,000 cost awarded against the
Association by the court in 2004.
The motion was moved by Mr Osafo Boabeng from the Oseawuo
Chambers and Co, solicitors for the plaintiff after filing a
notice of motion for an order to compel the GFA to comply
with the terms of a settlement of a case between their
client and the Association.
A copy of the motion filed on June 17 this year which was
made available to the GNA Sports stated that Nene Djan
commenced a legal action against the GFA and the Ministry of
Education, Science and Sports on the acquisition of a parcel
of land at Prampram that used for the construction of the
Ghanaman Centre for Sports Excellence.
An affidavit attached to the motion stated that after
negotiations between the plaintiff and the defendants, the
matter was settled out of court, adding that the Tema High
Court then presided over by Justice Barbara Ackah Yensu
endorsed the terms of settlements as consent to the judgment
of April 6, 2004.
It noted that the GFA paid GH¢1,000 out of the GH¢3,000
agreed upon but several letters written to the sector
ministry to compel them to pay the balance has proved
futile.
A copy of one of the letters addressed to the sector
Minister, Mr Dominic Fobih dated April 08, 2008 stated that
“the defendants have failed or refused to honour all
obligations emanating from the consent judgment save for the
part payment of GH¢1,000 as costs agreed upon”.
It added that as much as the solicitors have wanted to
resort to the legal modes of execution prescribed by the
rules of the court to ensure compliance with the consent
judgment, Nene Djan constrained them to give the ministry
prior notice for the benefit of the defendants for an
amicable settlement.
The letter again stated that “our client demands that the
defendants should honour their obligations under the consent
judgment by payment of the agreed terms in consideration for
the acquisition of the said land and payment of an amount of
GH¢2,000 being the outstanding costs”.
The Solicitors noted in the letter that earlier
correspondence exchanged between the parties have yielded no
result as “your predecessors have not even afforded us the
courtesy of a reply”.
It therefore concluded that “we wish to inform the GFA of
our intentions to proceed with this matter by executing the
said consent judgment to the letter in the event that we do
not receive any favourable response from you within 10 days
of receipt of this letter”.
GNA
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