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KWARTENG III
V.
OFORI

(2024) JELR 113344 (HC)

High Court 30 Jul 2024 Ghana
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- Plaintiff, a traditional ruler and Police officer, sued Defendant for defamatory statements made in a petition to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) on 23 January 2019, alleging Plaintiff was engaged in illegal mining ("galamsey") and

Case Details

Suit Number:E7/1/2021
Judges:BERNARD BENTIL, J
Counsel:ISAAC AGGREY-FYNN ESQ. FOR EVANS AMANKWAH FOR THE PLAINTIFF. GEORGE MAC-BADJI ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANTS.
Location:Capecoast

JUDGMENT

This action has been commenced against the Defendant for the following reliefs:

a. Damages of Five Hundred Thousand Ghana cedis (GH₵ 500,000.00) for defamatory statements the defendants published and distributed against the Plaintiff which said publication portrays the Plaintiff as illegal miner, lawless person etc, which said words in their true and natural sense has exposed the Plaintiff to public ridicule and contempt in the eyes of the right-thinking citizens of Ghana and members of the Effutuakwa Traditional Area.

b. An order directed at the Defendants to retract the said publication through the local information centers within Effutuakwa Traditional area three (3) times a day for a year.

c. An order directed at the Defendants to render unqualified apology publicly to the Plaintiff through a local information centers within Effutuakwa Traditional Area.

d. An order restraining the Defendants from publishing further falsehood against the Plaintiff

e. Any further order or orders …

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