{"id":101631,"date":"2015-03-23T18:29:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T18:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=101631"},"modified":"2015-03-23T18:52:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T18:52:59","slug":"franklin-cudjoe-sues-ndc-activist-demands-ghc11m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=101631","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Cudjoe sues NDC activist, demands GHC11m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe has filed a law suit against a National Democratic Congress(NDC) activist, Dela Coffie for what he describes as &#8220;defamatory&#8221; and malicious statements made against him by the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin Cudjoe is demanding 11 million Cedis in damages for defamation.<\/p>\n<p>Dela Coffie, who is the first defendant is expected to pay 10 million while the second defendant, Michael Dokosi is expected to pay 1 million cedis.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_101651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101651\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dela-dela2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-101651\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dela-dela2.jpg\" alt=\"Dela Coffie, National Democratic Congress (NDC) activist\" width=\"630\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dela-dela2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dela-dela2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dela-dela2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dela-dela2-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dela Coffie, National Democratic Congress (NDC) activist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to him, Dela Coffie in three separate publications released on the 16th, 19th and 22nd January respectively published falsehood about him.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the publications, the newspaper said \u00a0Franklin Cudjoe was on a lying spree and had lied that he is a &#8220;doctoral fellow when there was \u00a0nothing like doctoral fellow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story which was under the headline, &#8220;Franklin Cudjoe goes on lying spree&#8221; further alleged that he &#8220;lied that he was an alumunus of Havard while he had never attended Harvard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The publication also revealed that Franklin Cudjoe had said he was a &#8220;John Templeton award winner in 2006 even though the award winner was Prof. John. D. Barrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/headline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-101635\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/headline.jpg\" alt=\"headline\" width=\"465\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/headline.jpg 720w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/headline-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However a writ of summons issued on March 20, 2015 indicated that &#8220;a declaration that the statements set out in Paragraph 19 of the statement of claim, which statements were written and published on the front page and at page 3 of the Daily Post newspaper dated 16th January, 2015 under the headline &#8216;Meet Franklin Cudjoe The Liar&#8217; and with a photograph of the plaintiff are false, malicious and defamatory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cudjoe\u00a0is also asking \u00a0for a retraction and an unqualified apology for the publications.<\/p>\n<p>He is also praying the court to place an injunction on a second defendant , \u00a0to hinder him from writing in any other way, publishing the &#8220;same or similar defamatory statements&#8221; about the plaintiff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe has filed a law suit against a National Democratic Congress(NDC) activist, Dela Coffie for what he describes as &#8220;defamatory&#8221; and malicious statements made against him by the latter. Franklin Cudjoe is demanding 11 million Cedis in damages for defamation. 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