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Respondent State through the Ministry of Finance agreed to pay the Applicant. This
payment is different from the 21.5m Euro’s payment made to Waterville Holding Ltd
(BV|) Company
for certified work done in the construction and
rehabilitation of the
stadia before the termination of the contract. This payment is the one relevant to the
dispute before this Court.
B.
Procedure at the National
10.0n
Level
19 April 2010, the Applicant, having not received payment of the 2% as agreed
with the Ministry of Finance, instituted a suit at the High Court (Commercial Division)
against the Respondent State. On 24 May 2010, the Respondent State having failed
to file any defence, the High Court rendered
a judgment in default in favour of the
Applicant.
11. Following negotiations which led to an Out-of-Court Settlement, the default judgment
was later substituted for a consent judgment and the Applicant was paid a total sum
of Fifty-One Million, Two
Hundred
and
Eighty-Three Thousand,
Four Hundred
and
Eighty and Fifty-Nine Pesewas (GHC 51, 283, 480.59) in fulfilment of the 2% claimed
for raising funds for the project.
12.Following
Ghana,
the consent judgment,
Mr. Martin Amidu,
Ordinary
Bench
the former Attorney
in his personal capacity’,
of the Supreme
Court and
General
of the Republic
of
invoked the jurisdiction of the
challenged
the constitutionality of the
agreements entered into by the Respondent State and Waterville Holding (BVI) Ltd
Company
averred
and the Applicant, in relation to the construction of the stadia. Mr. Amidu
that the agreement was
in breach
of Article 181(5)
of the Constitution of
1 Article 2(1) (b) of the Constitution of Republic of Ghana states that “A person who alleges that... any act
or omission
of any person,
is inconsistent with, or is in contravention of a provision of this Constitution,
may bring an action in the Supreme Court for a declaration to that effect” ...”