The ‘side chick’ case by Deborah Seyram Adablah against Ernest Kwasi Nimako, a Chief Finance Officer of the First Atlantic Bank has been thrown out by an Accra High Court.
According to the court’s ruling on Tuesday, November 28, 2023, Miss Seyram Adablah’s case lacked merit for not having any substantive issue.
This was after lawyers for Kwasi Nimako argued before the court that Seyram Dablah did not disclose any reasonable cause of action and that “the contract she was seeking to enforce if at all, was a legal contract.”
Background
Deborah Adablah sued Ernest Kwasi Nimako, a chief finance officer of the First Atlantic Bank for allegedly breaching an agreement to cater for her.
Clad in grey blazers on navy blue pencil skirt, a determined-looking Seyram Adablah appeared in court in the company of her counsel on a Thursday morning.
Presiding Judge Olivia Obeng Owusu directed the counsels of both parties to file their submissions and adjourned the case.
But lawyers for First Atlantic Bank requested that the bank’s name be withdrawn from the lawsuit which the former national service personnel had dragged alongside the first defendant, Ernest Nimako.
In an application dated January 24, 2023, First Atlantic Bank requested that seven paragraphs of the writ be dismissed “on the ground that they disclose no reasonable cause of action against the applicant”.
Paragraphs 7,8,9,10,11,31,32,33,34,36 and 37 which were requested to be excluded comprise portions of the writ that accused the bank of watching on for female workers being harassed sexually by senior male officers of the bank.
Deborah Seyram Adablah sought an order from the court to direct the defendant, Ernest Kwasi Nimako to transfer the title of a car he had bought for her but had taken it back into her name, as well as return it.
She alleges in her suit dated January 23, 2023, that her ‘sugar daddy’ 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.
But things turned awry after Mr Nimako took the car from her one year after she used it and also paid only one year of the accommodation fee instead of three.
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