An Accra High Court has approved an out of court settlement reached between former President Rawlings and former Ghana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Professor Kwaku Danso-Boafo.
The former president was seeking an injunction to prevent the launching of Professor Danso-Boafo’s book; “JJ Rawlings and the Democratic Transition in Ghana.”
The former president accused Professor Danso-Boafo of bad faith because according to him, “Prof. Danso-Boafo had undertaken to wait for him (Rawlings) to review the book and correct all factual inaccuracies in it but “has breached his own solemn undertaking with me and has published it with the view to launching it.”
[contextly_sidebar id=”dCTNI3S1Krf1prUfbVzGlhwAHFQesxWP”]The later agreed to settle the matter out of court, and the agreement has been duly accepted by the Accra High Court.
citifmonline.com has gathered one of the conditions in the agreement is that, Professor Danso-Boafo would have to write a second edition of his book to address some the concerns former President Rawlings raised in the first edition.
Earlier, the author said the book was not intended to and does not bring Jerry Rawlings and his family into disrepute, but was rather authored from an “intellectual perspective and fair analysis of historical events which occurred during the plaintiff’s (Rawlings’) public life from military rule through transition to democracy and written in a very objective light.”
Prof. Danso-Boafo’s affidavit said the author, after completing the book, gave Jerry Rawlings a copy to proof read but the former president, after keeping the copy for well over two years, had not been able to point out a single sentence he finds unacceptable in the book.
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By: Fred Djabanor/citifmonline.com/Ghana