Court exonerates former OWASS headmaster
A Kumasi High Court presided over by Justice Charles Adjei Wilson has ordered the Ghana Education Service, the Ministry of Education and the Attorney General’s Department to pay all salary arrears, including the retirement benefits of the immediate past Headmaster of Opoku Ware Senior High School, Mr Fidelis Matthew Oppong-Mensah, following the court’s determination of his true retirement age.
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Mr Oppong-Mensah’s retirement age had been in contention for over a year following an affidavit he filed to correct his age.
In accordance with the affidavit served in court, he was supposed to have retired in March this year, but management of the school stuck to earlier documents in its custody and forcefully retired him last year March without his benefits.
The former headmaster contested the matter in court following which an amicable out-of-court settlement was reached between him and the three defendants namely the Ghana Education Service (GES), the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Attorny General Department.
The court last Wednesday adopted the terms of settlement as agreed and filed by the parties and considered them binding on the parties forthwith.
In accordance with the terms of settlement, the plaintiff, Mr Oppong-Mensah, must be paid his salaries in arrears from September, 2015 when his name was struck off the payroll by the first defendant, that is the GES, to March, 2016.
The GES is to take the necessary steps to ensure that Mr Oppong-Mensah is paid his benefits as stipulated under the terms of settlement.
Signatories to the terms of settlement reached were the plaintiff, and the Ashanti Regional Director of Education, Madam Mary Owusu-Achiaw, on behalf of the GES and the Ministry of Education.
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It was witnessed by the Very Rev. Father Louis K. Tuffuor, Vicar-General of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kumasi and Mr Boakye Dankwa Anane, the Regional Administrative Officer of the GES.
There was no cost awarded by the court.