Ex-EOCO Boss cleared | General News 2019-05-31

General News on Friday, May 31, 2019

Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

2019-05-31

Former Executive Director of the Bureau for Combating Economic and Organized Crime (ACP), ACP K.K. Amoah and two other people were sentenced for contempt of court in the High Court of Accra.

Gideon Delali Deklu, a former disaffected employee of EOCO, dismissed for insubordination in 2018, filed a lawsuit against his former boss and managing director of GCB Bank Limited, Anselm Ray Sowah, and the director of the High Street branch of the bank. Francis Nyarku.

The lawsuit followed the dismissal of the employee on the recommendation of an EOCO Discipline Committee and a further order by his GCB banker to freeze his account and transfer the funds thus accumulated to the Comptroller and Accountant General Department (CAGD). ).

The plaintiff filed an application for judicial review challenging EOCO's decision to order the bank to impose an embargo on his bank account.

Delali Deklu, in her application, stated that while the application was pending in court, a letter of dismissal had been sent to her and a further instruction to GCB Bank to return the retained funds to the Comptroller and Accountant General Department.

This, he said, was deliberately done by EOCO to discredit the administration of justice and deny the result of its judicial review application.

EOCO, in its response to the affidavit, argued that Deklu had been fired following the report of a properly constituted disciplinary committee, in which he had already appeared in the company of his lawyer.

EOCO argued that the fact that the Applicant filed the application did not preclude him from referring it on the basis of the recommendation.

He added that the decision to transfer the accumulated funds to the Comptroller and the Accountant General was intended to protect public funds and that the returned complainant had not initiated any proceedings against his dismissal.

The lawyers of GCB Bank also claimed that, despite EOCO's directive to transfer the funds to CAGD, it had been transferred to a suspense account while waiting for the case to take place. be judged.

According to the bank, this is because she had noticed that the dismissed employee was still making withdrawals from the account, which was the subject of the complaint in court.

The court, presided over by Judge Novisi Afua Aryene, at the end of the hearing, rejected the claim, claiming that it was unfounded and allocating 500 GH ¢ to the plaintiff.