First Atlantic Bank sexual harassment case: Court strikes out Bank's name, awards GH¢6000 cost to Adablah

The High Court in Accra has awarded a cost of GH¢6,000 against Deborah Seyram Adablah, a former First Atlantic Bank National service personnel suing the bank’s former Chief Finance officer of sexual harassment.

Lawyers for First National Bank had earlier a motion for the removal of the bank from the case.

In her ruling on Friday, July 21, Justice Olivia Obeng Owusu struck out the bank’s name and additionally awarded the GH¢6, 000.

Lawyers for First Atlantic Bank prayed the court to award the cost of damages to the tune of GH¢50,000 but counsel for Seyram Adablah’s pleaded with the court to reduce it to GH¢5,000.

The court is yet to hear the substantive case of sexual harassment as it has been put on hold by a number of interim applications.

Lawyers of Seyram Adablah have filed an interim application asking the court to set aside an earlier order asking her to hand over the Honda Civic vehicle to the court’s registry.

Former Chief Finance Officer, Ernest Kwasi Nimako, on the other hand has filed an interim application to commit the former service personnel to prison for contempt.

Background

Deborah Seyram Adablah’s suit, filed on Monday, January 23, 2023, alleges that Ernest Kwasi Nimako, whom she refers to as her “sugar daddy,” made several promises to her.

According to the plaintiff, Nimako agreed to buy her the car, pay for her accommodation for three years, provide a monthly stipend of GH¢3,000, marry her after divorcing his wife, and offer a lump sum to start a business

The plaintiff claims that although the car was initially registered in Nimako’s name, he later took it back, depriving her of its use after just a year.

Additionally, she asserts that Nimako paid for only one year of accommodation, despite promising to cover three years.

The plaintiff is seeking an order from the court directed at the “sugar daddy” to transfer the title of the car into her name, and also give her back the car.

She is also asking the court to order the defendant to pay her the lump sum to enable “her to start a business to take care of herself as agreed by the plaintiff and the defendant.”

Another relief is for the court to order the “sugar daddy” to pay the outstanding two years’ accommodation as agreed between her and the defendant.

By Laud Adu-Asare |3news.com| Ghana