{"id":396493,"date":"2018-01-30T07:23:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T07:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=396493"},"modified":"2018-01-30T08:21:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T08:21:44","slug":"afia-akoto-begs-senyo-hosi-to-escape-gh%c2%a28m-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=396493","title":{"rendered":"Afia Akoto begs Senyo Hosi to escape GH\u00a28m suit"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Deputy Executive Secretary of the Microfinance and Small Loan Center (MASLOC), Afia Akoto, who is the third defendant in a GH\u00a2 8 million defamation lawsuit, has apologized and retracted comments she reechoed accusing Senyo Hosi, CEO of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors of offering a $1 million bribe to the CEO of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) Alfred Obeng.<\/p>\n

In a letter dated January 22, 2018, and addressed to Senyo Hosi\u2019s lawyers, Afia Akoto said she admits her comment was without basis and apologized for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI write to sincerely and unreservedly apologize, retract wholly my comments about your client which led to me being 3rd<\/sup> defendant in the above-mentioned defamation lawsuit. .. I admit that even though I did not originate the allegations of wrongdoing, I did re-echoe them on my Facebook wall on the 28th<\/sup> of June 2017 without first verifying what I now accept to be rather unfortunate claims without basis.. I regret the comment, and apologize unreservedly and undertake never to repeat them. I am truly sorry for the damage caused your client,\u201d the letter stated.<\/p>\n

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At the court hearing on Monday, Madam Afia Akoto signed the terms of settlement which includes the retraction and apology.<\/p>\n

She was therefore removed from the case as 3rd<\/sup> defendant, while plaintiff had gone to pray default judgement because Mr. Kennedy Agyapong and Kencity Media had not filed a defence to the case.<\/p>\n

But they brought a late defence on Monday morning which was accepted by the court, but was made to pay GH\u00a21,000 for the late defence.<\/p>\n

The case will now proceed with Mr. Agyapong and Kencity Media as 1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup> respondents respectively.<\/p>\n

Kennedy Agyapong, who owns Kencity Media, alleged that Senyo Hosi had made a $1 million bribe offer to the CEO of BOST, Alfred Obeng.<\/p>\n

The MP said the bribe was to influence Mr. Obeng to reverse the contaminated fuel sale made by BOST to two companies.<\/p>\n

Afia Akoto, who was joined to the lawsuit as a 3rd<\/sup> defendant repeated the allegation on her social media platform.<\/p>\n

Senyo Hosi, who said the allegation had no basis and was a deliberate attempt to damage his reputation, filed a lawsuit<\/a><\/strong> on Tuesday, July 4, 2017, asking the court to award a GH\u00a25 million compensation against Kennedy Agyapong, and GH\u00a23 million against Kencity Media, the platform on which the allegation was made.<\/p>\n

He was also seeking a GH\u00a21 million compensation against Afia Akoto.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Deputy Executive Secretary of the Microfinance and Small Loan Center (MASLOC), Afia Akoto, who is the third defendant in a GH\u00a2 8 million defamation lawsuit, has apologized and retracted comments she reechoed accusing Senyo Hosi, CEO of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors of offering a $1 million bribe to the CEO of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":396494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[16618,10302,3,331,810],"class_list":["post-396493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-afia-akoto","tag-cbod","tag-ghana-news","tag-masloc","tag-senyo-hosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396493","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=396493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/396494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}