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CEO of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, five others in court over
land case
Accra July 16, GNA - Four hundred and thirty-nine personnel
of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital have dragged the Chief
Executive Officer of the Hospital, Professor Kwabena
Frimpong-Boateng and five others to court in connection with
an alleged fraudulent transaction over parcels of land at
Oyibi, near Accra.
They are to answer questions over registered documents
covering plots of land they had bought in 2004 for
plaintiffs, including doctors, nurses, and laboratory
technicians at Oyibi.
The plaintiffs are seeking an order compelling the
defendants to possess the land for which they had paid 10
million cedis (1,000 Ghana cedis) each.
Alternatively, they are seeking an order of the court
compelling defendants to refund monies collected from them,
general damages for fraud, interest on their monies as well
as cost.
The others defendants are Dr B.D.R. T Annan, Director of
Medical Affairs, Mr Christopher Nartey, Director of
Administration, Mr Emmanuel E.B. Annan Kakabaah, Director of
Finance, Mr Alex Arhin, Secretary to Oyibi Land Committee
and the Hospital.
When the suit commenced, the defendants did not file any
defence hence plaintiffs filed a motion for judgement in
default of defence.
The defendants, however, filed an affidavit in opposition to
the motion for judgement in default of defence, saying they
were taken by surprise with the turn of events because some
leaders of plaintiffs had entered into negotiations to
resolve the matter.
The defendants say they “had not perpetuated any fraud on
the plaintiffs” adding that the whole transaction is purely
an in-house matter.
The High Court therefore adjourned the case to July 27, to
enable the plaintiffs and defendants to attempt an out of
court settlement.
In their statement claim, plaintiffs say sometime in 2004,
defendants published in their in-house magazine, “Korle Bu
Bulletin” and on various notices boards that they had
secured a large tract of land at Oyibi on the Katamanso Road
on hire purchase.
Plaintiffs said the said notices requested that they paid
eight million cedis per plot and that the first deduction,
which was the deposit fee of one million cedis would be
effected through February 2004 Additional Duty Hours
allowance (ADHA) while the balance of seven million was
spread over a period of eleven months.
According to plaintiffs, they expressed interest and monies
were deducted for the payment for their respective plots.
In due course, plaintiffs said the price per plot was
increased to 10 million cedis, including an additional two
million cedis fee charged each of the plaintiff to support
administrative and documentation processes.
Plaintiff said they had all completed payment for their
respective plots.
Plaintiffs averred that for them to believe in the integrity
of the transaction, the defendants organised a group trip to
the land ostensibly to show them their respective plots.
They said the defendants issued out documents to some of the
plaintiffs but they were found to be faked and were
withdrawn.
After a while the plaintiffs said they were neither given
their documents nor the land although they had written
reminders to the defendants.
Plaintiffs therefore contended that the defendants had
defrauded them.
GNA
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