{"id":2799,"date":"2014-02-27T17:31:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T17:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2014-02-28T10:41:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T10:41:40","slug":"i-will-take-the-money-mosquito-tells-daily-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=2799","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I will take the money\u2019 \u2013 Mosquito tells Daily Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2800\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/gen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2800\" alt=\"Johnson Asiedu Nketia\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/gen-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/gen-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/gen.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnson Asiedu Nketia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has served notice he will claim to the last penny, damages awarded him by the High Court on Thursday in a defamation suit brought against the Daily Guide newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>He said contrary to assertions that \u201cthe intention is just to go to court and get a judgement and not to pursue the claims, I am promising you that I will pursue my rights to the debt. I will take the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Accra Fast Track High Court 6 on Thursday awarded GHC 250,000 in damages to Mr. Asiedu Nketia after he sued the newspaper for publishing a story that suggested he built two mansions during late Professor John Mills\u2019 administration.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC General Secretary who addressed a press briefing after the ruling said his decision to retrieve the total sum from Daily Guide is to serve a lesson to recalcitrant media houses.<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that the money will be used to \u201cbuild a house and I will write in front of it \u2018Kwasia bi nti\u2019 [because of a certain fool]\u201d adding that the amount puts him in the range of billionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Asiedu Nketia opined that the corruption is not the biggest problem in Ghana but \u201cit is more of dishonesty and lying\u201d and it can only be addressed if dishonesty and lying is made \u201cvery expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has served notice he will claim to the last penny, damages awarded him by the High Court on Thursday in a defamation suit brought against the Daily Guide newspaper. He said contrary to assertions that \u201cthe intention is just to go to court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}