An IT company, Watergates Ghana Limited is demanding over 38 million Cedis from the Ghana Service as compensation for unlawful termination of contract.
Based on the accounts of the company, it was contracted by the Service to manage its online recruitment process in October 2012, with the agreement that the net revenue generated from the web portal would be shared in the ratio of 60:40 to the police service and the company respectively.
The calculation was that an estimated 25 million cedis would be generated yearly from the exercise.
However, after spending about 4 million cedis on the preparation of the project, it received a letter from the police on April 9, 2014, unilaterally withdrawing from the partnership.
Management of Watergates said it replied the police letter calling for a stakeholders meeting to have the issue discussed but this was ignored. The President of Ghana, as well as some government functionaries, were petitioned over the matter.
The company said what compelled it to seek relief in court was when it chanced on a publication in the May 9, edition of the Ghanaian Times newspaper were the police was announcing its intention to recruit individuals for the online recruitment service.
It said it drew the attention of the police over its double standard behaviour, however, it was ignored as usual.
The company is among the things pleading the court to :
(a) Declaration that the decision by the Police to withdraw from the Agreement is a breach of contract and wrongful.
(b) Order that the contract specifically performed.
(c) Damages of Thirteen Million, Nine Hundred and Sixty Seven Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHC 13,967,000)for breach of contract.
(d) Special damages of Twenty Five Million Ghana Cedis for the expenses incurred on printing the scratch cards.
(e) Cost including legal cost.
(f) And any other orders that this court may deem fit.
It is also asking the court to place an interlocutory injunction on the police, its “servants, work persons, agents, assigns, privies from going ahead with the sales with the E-Vouchers for the online recruitment exercise as advertised in the various news media”.
Credit: Pulse
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