The High Court presided over by Justice Nana Brew absolved an appliance for administrative analysis filed by George Smith-Graham, a above administrator of UMB Bank, adjoin the Coffer of Ghana (BoG)

The accommodation was taken on July 10, 2024

Giving the acumen in favour of the BoG, the Court declared that the purpose of the Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions Act, Act 930 and the Corporate Governance Charge 2018, was to enhance the authoritative admiral of the Coffer to ensure acumen in the cyberbanking sector

The Court explained that it brash Area 102 of Act 930 and was of the appearance that the area conferred advanced admiral on the BoG to antidote any abuse of its laws and regulations by banks and specialised drop demography institutions and that the BoG was advantaged to exercise the ability afterwards accepting advice on the breach

The Court accordingly captivated that the altercation by the Applicant that the BoG could not abjure the arrangement of a administrator of a bank, which had abandoned its laws unless it had accustomed the administrator a audition was untenable. The Court added declared that Area 102 (3) of Act 930 continued the alleviative activity that may be taken by the BoG to accommodate the abatement of a director

The Court begin added that the barter of belletrist amid the parties showed that the BoG gave the Applicant and UMB a hearing. In the appearance of the Court, the Applicant, who was acting both as a administrator and the Chairperson of UMB could not feign benightedness of the accord amid the parties

It assuredly captivated that the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992) does not bind the ample admiral accustomed to BoG beneath Act 930 to antidote the aperture of its directives. The Court added that Act 930, which is the law accurately acclimation the conduct of banks, takes antecedence over the accepted accoutrement of Act 992 apropos the abatement of admiral by BoG

The Court accordingly absolved the appliance on area that it was unmeritorious and that the Applicant was clumsy to authorize that the BoG's ability was acclimatized corruptly or with an angry absorbed in an irrational, arbitrary and absurd manner

Background On 22nd July 2022, the BoG, pursuant to its powers, beneath the Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions Act, Act 930 and the Corporate Governance Charge 2018, issued a charge on the arrangement and redesignation of admiral and key administration personnel. This appropriate all bartering banks [including Universal Merchant Coffer Ltd (UMB)] to access a above-mentioned accounting "No Objection" from BoG afore redesignating an absolute non-executive administrator to any added position

UMB on 5th July 2023 declared to accredit Mr. Smith-Graham (a non-executive director) as its lath armchair at an emergency affair of its Board. UMB did not accede with the BoG's Charge of July 2022 by declining to access BoG's above-mentioned accounting "No Objection" to the declared appointment

BoG after abreast UMB of its aperture of the Charge and directed UMB to administer for the BoG's "No objection" for the arrangement of Mr. Smith-Graham as its Lath Chair. The UMB, in response, claimed it had been brash by its attorneys that it did not crave BoG's "No Objection" to accredit Mr. Smith Graham as the Lath Chair, appropriately it would not so administer to BoG. Due to UMB's intransigence, BoG acclimatized its admiral beneath the Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions Act, 2016 (Act 930) and revoked its approval of the arrangement of Mr. Smith Graham as UMB's director

Dissatisfied with the accommodation of the BoG, Mr Smith Graham (Applicant) filed an appliance for administrative analysis of the abolishment of his arrangement as a director. It was the case of the Applicant that the ability of the BoG beneath area 102 of Act 930 does not accommodate the ability to abjure his arrangement as a administrator of UMB Bank. The Applicant arguable added that alike if the BoG had the ability to abjure his arrangement as a director, the BoG was appropriate beneath law to accord him a hearing. The BoG on the added duke maintained that it had the ability to abjure the arrangement of the Applicant beneath the said area 102 of Act 930

The affair afore the Court was whether the BoG could abjure the arrangement of the Applicant beneath area 102 of Act 930 based on advice that it apparent by its own investigations

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