Sugar daddy vs side chic court case: Judge yet to sit on the case

The case of a woman suing the chief finance officer of a bank for allegedly breaching an agreement to look after her came up again at the High Court in Accra, with tangential issues getting in the way of the substantive matter.



The presiding judge, Justice Olivia Obeng Owusu, had ordered the parties in the case to file written submissions at the court's first hearing so that the court could delve into the substantive matter.

When the case was called yesterday, however, lawyers for the man sued by Deborah Seyram Adablah had filed an application for leave to file a supplementary affidavit in support of their written submission.

The application was filed by counsel for Ernest Kwasi Nimako, the Chief Finance Officer of the bank where the young woman did her national service and has made sexual harassment claims against in her suit.

However, the plaintiff's counsel, Mohammed Attah, informed the court that his client had also filed an application to oppose Nimako's application.

Counsel argued that Nimako's lawyers failed to specify which sections of his affidavit they wanted to respond to.

He went on to say that Nimako's lawyers should have filed the supplementary affidavit as soon as possible because that was the custom.



That was contested by Nimako’s lawyer, Ama Opoku Amponsah.

She argued that the counsel’s position that they ought to have attached a proposed supplementary affidavit was not known to the rules of the court.

By Court
The presiding judge, Justice Owusu adjourned the case to April 6, 2023.

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She urged counsel for Adablah to serve the bank with his written submissions.

She is expected to give a ruling on the applications filed by the Nimako, which was seeking leave to file a supplementary affidavit in support of their written submission.

In a suit dated Monday, January 23, 2023, filed at the Accra High Court, Adablah contends that her “sugar daddy,” Ernest Kwasi Nimako agreed to buy her a car, pay for her accommodation for three years, give her a monthly stipend of GH¢3,000, marry her after divorcing his wife and also give her a lump sum to start a business.

It is her case that Nimako, although bought the car and registered it in his (sugar daddy’s name), he has taken the car back, denying her access to use it after about a year of enjoying the Honda Civic worth GH¢120,000, while he also paid for only one-year accommodation, even though he promised to pay for three years.

Adablah who claims that she was forced into the relationship during the period she did her national service at the bank where Ernest Kwasi Nimako works, has also accused Nimako of abuse, sexual harassment, maltreatment, exploitation and also lowering her reputation.

Reliefs
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.”

Credit: Ghanafeed