New Patriotic Party (NPP) member, Gabby Otchere-Darko, has sued Revelap Publishers & Suppliers limited, the publishers of the Ghana Palaver newspaper, and a Ghanaian citizen, for defamation.<\/p>\n
The defamation concerns a news story published in the Ghana Palaver Newspaper on Tuesday, September 12, 2017, alleging that the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, gave Mr. Otcehre Darko\u2019s law firm a $20 million review contract.<\/p>\n
The newspaper said this information was from \u201cunimpeachable sources\u201d and described this alleged sole-sourced contract given to Mr. Otchere-Darko as an act of nepotism, whilst disparaging his law firm, Africa Legal Associates.<\/p>\n
Mr. Otchere-Darko is seeking an injunction restraining the defendants from further publishing the defamatory content that spawned this lawsuit. He is also demanding legal fees as part of his suit.<\/p>\n
Mr. Otchere-Darko’s lawyers, in the writ sighted by citifmonline.com<\/strong>, said the allegations were \u201cutterly false, products of the defendants\u2019 imagination and were mischievously calculated by the defendant to disparage him [Otchered Darko] and to create disaffection for him and to bring him into odium in the eyes of right thinking members of the Republic and global community.\u201d<\/p>\n The lawyers held that \u00a0Mr. Otchere-Darko\u2019s reputation, \u201cespecially as a lawyer\u201d had been damaged, and he had suffered \u201cdebilitating distress and embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n “Further, he has been inundated with numerous calls from business associations and social relations and friends, and he has had to answer very mortifying questions,\u201d the lawyers added.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Patriotic Party (NPP) member, Gabby Otchere-Darko, has sued Revelap Publishers & Suppliers limited, the publishers of the Ghana Palaver newspaper, and a Ghanaian citizen, for defamation. The defamation concerns a news story published in the Ghana Palaver Newspaper on Tuesday, September 12, 2017, alleging that the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, gave Mr. Otcehre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353311","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}