The Management of Ecobank Ghana has indicated that it will soon file an affidavit to challenge an application for the committal of contempt filed by businessman Daniel Ofori against the bank’s Managing Director, Dan Sackey and two other top officials of the bank.
In a two-paragraph statement in response to the substituted service move secured by the businessman’s lead council, the Management of Ecobank noted that it has taken notice of the application and assured that the bank’s lawyers will respond and oppose the application accordingly.
“The attention of Ecobank Ghana PLC has been drawn to some online publications on an application for the committal for contempt filed by one Daniel Ofori against the Managing Director, Head of Legal Department and a Legal Assistant of the Bank. The said application was served at the Bank and immediate steps are being taken to file an affidavit in opposition.”
Ecobank Statement
Ecobank thus, used the opportunity to wish a Merry Christmas to its customers all over the country, urging them to remain calm while its lawyers handle the issue.
“Management takes the opportunity to wish its cherished customers, shareholders and the general public the very best of the festive season.”
Ecobank Statement
The two other bank officials are Ewuraa Abena Asafo-Boakye, Head of the Legal Department of the Bank, and William Asamoah-Otoo of the Legal Department.
This comes after Dan Ofori secured a writ of Fi-Fa from the Supreme Court in respect of some GHS96 million plus that the bank is supposed to pay to him. The court gave an order for notice of the writ to be pasted on the bank’s head office building.
But the court heard that immediately the notice was pasted on the bank’s head office building, William Asamoah-Otoo removed it on the orders of Dan Sackey and Ewuraa Abena Asafo-Boakye.
Lawyers of Dan Ofori, led by Thaddeus Sory, therefore filed an application for the imprisonment of the three for contempt of court on December 14, 2021.
According to reports, efforts to get the three and serve them with the notice of the contempt of court proved futile. As a result, Mr Tsatsu Tsikata, the lead council for Mr Ofori moved an application for substituted service on Tuesday December 21, 2021, which was subsequently heard by the court on December 24, 2021.
The Court presided over by Justice Gifty Adjei, granted the application for substituted service and ordered that the three persons be served by the pasting of the Court processes regarding the contempt charges, at the Head Office of the Bank.
The notice were to be pasted at No. 19, Seventh Avenue, Ridge West, Accra, in the case of Mr. Sackey and Mr Asamoah-Otoo and at No. 2 Mandy Close, Mayfair Gardens, Upper East Airport, Accra, in the case of Madam Ewuraa Abena Asafo-Boakye.
In the intervening time, the Court noted that a hearing notice for the next date for the three persons to appear in court should also be served on them.
The Court adjourned to January 12, 2022 to enable the three officers to appear in court to answer the charges of contempt filed against the bank.
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