KWABENA ABOAGYE V. THE CONTROLLER & ACCOUNTANT GENERAL AND THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL

JUDGMENT

DR. S. K. DATE-BAH JSC:

The plaintiff is a trained teacher who was employed by the Government of Ghana, through the Ghana Education Service, an agency of the Ministry of Education, in 1966. After serving in the Ghana Education Service till 1968, he was granted study leave without pay to study for an undergraduate degree at the University of Ghana, Legon. Upon completion of his degree in 1971, he was employed at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning from June to August 1971, at the Ghana Water and Sewerage Corporation from September 1971 to June 1976, at the National Investment Bank from May 1976 to October 1978 and, finally, at the Ghana Cocoa Marketing Board, from November 1978 to October 1979. The plaintiff’s last employer in the public service was the Ghana Cocoa Marketing Board, which terminated his employment because of a reorganization that the corporation had undertaken.

On attaining the retiring age of sixty in 2002, the plaintiff applied to the Ghana Education S…