Gabby finally served on ¢1bn ET libel suit
A week after a writ was widely circulated among the parliamentary press corps and the mass media in Ghana, in general, the defendants in the ¢1billion libel suit filed by two NDC MPs are now being served.
The suit concerns the naming of alleged conspirators in an alleged assassination plot against Haruna Iddrisu, NDC Member of Parliament for Tamale South, which was published in newspapers in recent weeks.
Tuesday, Multi Media Broadcasting Company, owners of Adom FM, with offices at Kokomlemle, Accra were served. Yesterday, the bailiff returned to Kokomlemle to serve Asare "Gabby" Otchere-Darko at the office of The Statesman.
The bailiff mentioned his intention to travel to Tema today to serve Adom FM, as well.
Last Friday, the Ghana News Agency, among several media houses, reported that in a suit filed at the Accra High Court on May 16, that two NDC frontbenchers, Enoch Teye Mensah, MP for Ningo/Prampram and Doe Adjaho, MP for Ave Avenor, the plaintiffs are complaining about alleged statements that Mr Otchere-Darko made on an Adom FM programme 'Dwaso Nsem' on the alleged assassination plot on their fellow NDC frontbencher.
The plaintiffs noted that conspiracy is a crime under Ghanaian law "with devastating dire consequences" and said the publication and statements were "calculated to cause hatred, disparage, ridicule and injure the plaintiffs" hard earned reputation and that of their families."
They are seeking "perpetual injunction restraining the defendants together and each and every one of them with their agents, assigns and servants from further publishing or cause to be published the said or similar words."
The plaintiffs are also seeking a retraction of the said defamatory statements of the defendants with an equal prominence with which the original defamatory statements were made.
Bram-Larbi, Beecham and co filed the suit on behalf of the plaintiffs. "In consequence the plaintiffs’ reputation, both personal and as politicians and public officers, has been seriously injured and they have suffered considerable distress and embarrassment as a result of the said publication," the suit said.
Asare Otchere-Darko has maintained in several interviews that though he mentioned the names of the two MPs he added and still maintains that the two men were too honourable and should therefore not be associated with a plot over a crime such as political assassination that is alien to Ghana’s Fourth Republic. Source: statesman
The suit concerns the naming of alleged conspirators in an alleged assassination plot against Haruna Iddrisu, NDC Member of Parliament for Tamale South, which was published in newspapers in recent weeks.
Tuesday, Multi Media Broadcasting Company, owners of Adom FM, with offices at Kokomlemle, Accra were served. Yesterday, the bailiff returned to Kokomlemle to serve Asare "Gabby" Otchere-Darko at the office of The Statesman.
The bailiff mentioned his intention to travel to Tema today to serve Adom FM, as well.
Last Friday, the Ghana News Agency, among several media houses, reported that in a suit filed at the Accra High Court on May 16, that two NDC frontbenchers, Enoch Teye Mensah, MP for Ningo/Prampram and Doe Adjaho, MP for Ave Avenor, the plaintiffs are complaining about alleged statements that Mr Otchere-Darko made on an Adom FM programme 'Dwaso Nsem' on the alleged assassination plot on their fellow NDC frontbencher.
The plaintiffs noted that conspiracy is a crime under Ghanaian law "with devastating dire consequences" and said the publication and statements were "calculated to cause hatred, disparage, ridicule and injure the plaintiffs" hard earned reputation and that of their families."
They are seeking "perpetual injunction restraining the defendants together and each and every one of them with their agents, assigns and servants from further publishing or cause to be published the said or similar words."
The plaintiffs are also seeking a retraction of the said defamatory statements of the defendants with an equal prominence with which the original defamatory statements were made.
Bram-Larbi, Beecham and co filed the suit on behalf of the plaintiffs. "In consequence the plaintiffs’ reputation, both personal and as politicians and public officers, has been seriously injured and they have suffered considerable distress and embarrassment as a result of the said publication," the suit said.
Asare Otchere-Darko has maintained in several interviews that though he mentioned the names of the two MPs he added and still maintains that the two men were too honourable and should therefore not be associated with a plot over a crime such as political assassination that is alien to Ghana’s Fourth Republic. Source: statesman
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