The Plaintiff mounted this suit on 7th November, 2018, against the Defendant for the following reliefs as endorsed on the writ of summons and statement of claim: i. Refund of GH¢46, 732. 06 (Forty Six Thousand, Seven Hundred and Thirty-Two Ghana Cedis, Six Pesewas) being money the Plaintiff deposited with the Defendant in a “susu” scheme from June 2015 to September 2018. ii.
Interest on GH¢46, 732. 06 (Forty Six Thousand, Seven Hundred and Thirty-Two Ghana Cedis, Six Pesewas) from September 2018 till date of final payment.
Costs, including legal fee.
Any further orders as this honourable Court may deem fit or appropriate.
The crux of the Plaintiff’s plaint is contained in paragraphs 3 to 12 of the statement of claim of the Plaintiff, a summation of which is as follows: According to the Plaintiff, in or about 2015, the Defendant through its agents advertised its services to the Plaintiff which services included a “susu” scheme to which she agreed to enrol.
The Plaintiff says that as a condition for membership of the scheme, she opened an account at the Makola Branch of the Defendant Company and was issued with a pass book.
The Plaintiff continues that she subsequently made contributions to the Defendant, through the Defendant’s agents to the tune of GH¢46, 732. 00 between the period of 2015 to 2018. The Plaintiff avers that since September 2018, she had visited the Defendant’s branch at Makola and its head office at Dzorwulu, Accra, in an attempt to withdraw her money but this has proved futile.
The Plaintiff says also that despite several attempts to access her funds, she has been denied same.
It is the Plaintiff’s case that the Defendant has refused to liquidate its indebtedness to her despite repeated demands for same, resulting in the present action.
Upon service of the writ and statement of claim on the Defendant, it entered appearance and filed its statement of defence on the same day of 21st November, 2018. In the statement of defence, the Defendant denied all material averments contained in the Plaintiff’s statement of claim.
At the application for directions stage, the parties intimated to the Court their intention to settle their dispute out of Court.
On 15th April, 2019, the parties filed their terms of settlement and appeared before the Court for same to be adopted on the same day.
They however intimated to the Court that they wished to abandon paragraph 5 of their terms of settlement.
Accordingly, consent judgment is hereby entered
