Relationships are expensive in Ghana, when on the face of the economy and mostly the parties in play, they shouldn’t be.

The young girl who is suing her banker boyfriend for failing to honor certain promises is a case in point.
She was receiving a monthly stipend of 3,000 GHS which can be termed as gratuitous—I am not sure what she was doing as consideration for this money—perhaps, sex in that relationship was her consideration as a lot of Ghanaian women argue on social media.
The man had also agreed to pay for her accommodation for 3 years (the rent was 1,500 GHS per month)—and he further agreed to marry her after divorcing his wife and also give her a lump sum to start a business.
Finally, the woman in her lawsuit says the man bought a car in his own name but gave her the car to use which he finally took back, denying her access to use it after about a year of enjoying the Honda Civic worth GH¢120,000.




So, she wants the court to grant her the car, and also for the court to order the man to pay the remaining 2 years of her accommodation as the man only paid for 1 year accommodation.
She wants damages too as well as the back payments of her monthly stipend which the man stopped in July 2022.
In all these, I have been asking myself this: what was the girl giving as consideration for all these things—I mean what was she offering for all these gargantuan gains which she wants the court to enforce?
This our world is interesting—we men must just learn sense.
The court should simply ask her to indicate the consideration she provided for all that she seems to be entitled to under their contract--as lack of consideration from both parties, renders a contract unenforceable.
“The rule is that consideration must be sufficient but need not be adequate. What this means is that the law requires the parties to have entered into a bargain where each side has provided something of value that the courts can see.”