Deborah Seyram Adablah, a former First Atlantic Bank National service member challenging the bank’s former Chief Finance officer for sexual harassment, was awarded GH6,000 in costs by the Accra High Court.
Lawyers for First National Bank had already filed a petition to have the bank removed from the litigation.
Justice Olivia Obeng Owusu’s judgement on Friday, July 21, wiped out the bank’s name and granted the GH6,000.
Lawyers for First Atlantic Bank asked the court to award GH50,000 in damages, but lawyers for Seyram Adablah asked the court to lower it to GH5,000.
The court has yet to hear the substantive matter of sexual harassment due to a number of interim motions.
Seyram Adablah’s lawyers have filed an interim plea requesting the court to vacate an earlier decision requiring her to surrender the Honda Civic automobile to the court’s registry.
Ernest Kwasi Nimako, the former Chief Finance Officer, has filed an interim application to condemn the former service workers to prison for contempt.
Deborah Seyram Adablah’s lawsuit, filed on Monday, January 23, 2023, claims that Ernest Kwasi Nimako, whom she refers to as her “sugar daddy,” promised her various promises. According to the complaint, Nimako committed to purchasing her a car, paying for her housing for three years, providing a GH3,000 monthly stipend, marrying her after divorcing his wife and offering a lump amount to establish a company.
Although the automobile was initially registered in Nimako’s name, the plaintiff says that he later took it back, depriving her of its usage after only a year. Furthermore, she claims that Nimako only paid for one year of housing while agreeing to cover three years.
The plaintiff is requesting that the court issue an order directing the “sugar daddy” to transfer the title of the automobile into her name and return the car to her.
She further requests that the court compel the defendant to give her the lump amount in order for “her to start a business to take care of herself as agreed by the plaintiff and the defendant.”
Another request is that the court order the “sugar daddy” to pay the outstanding two years’ rent as agreed between her and the defendant.
