{"id":412090,"date":"2018-03-23T06:07:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T06:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=412090"},"modified":"2018-03-23T12:29:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:29:22","slug":"ibrahim-mahama-sues-owusu-bempah-for-defamation-demands-ghc2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=412090","title":{"rendered":"Ibrahim Mahama sues Owusu Bempah for defamation; demands Ghc2m"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chief Executive Officer of construction firm Engineers and Planners Company Limited, Ibrahim Mahama, is seeking Ghc2 million cedis in damages in a defamation suit filed against the Communications Director of Ghana Gas Company, Ernest Owusu Bempah.<\/p>\n

Mr. Owusu Bempah, during the course of a live television discussion on an Accra-based\u00a0television station, UTV, alleged accused Mr. Ibrahim Mahama of stealing.<\/p>\n

But Mr. Mahama argues in his suit that the allegations were informed\u00a0by ill-intent on the part of\u00a0Mr. Owusu Bempah.<\/p>\n

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Ernest Owusu Bempah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He has therefore asked the High Court to award punitive damages.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit, which has been sighted by Citi News<\/strong>, is seeking “an order of injunction restraining Ernest Owusu Bempah from publishing the same or similar defamatory statements about Ibrahim Mahama.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plaintiff is also seeking “an order directed at Ernest Owusu Bempah compelling him to publish in the Daily Graphic and on UTV and unqualified apology to Ibrahim Mahama and a retraction of the said statements with the same prominence and passion as the defamatory statement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aside from this, Ibrahim Mahama is also seeking \u201cpunitive or exemplary damages of GHc 2 million for defamation” and compensation of his legal costs.<\/p>\n

He also wants UTV to \u201cremove from its archives, be it electronically or whatever form, the said defamatory statement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Mahama maintains that the allegations of theft are \u201cpalpable lies made without justification and was actuated by the defendant’s [Owusu Bempah] gross malice, disdain and ill will\u201d towards him.<\/p>\n

Mr. Owusu Bempah was a Communications Director of the National Democratic Party (NDP) prior to his appointment to Ghana Gas.<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chief Executive Officer of construction firm Engineers and Planners Company Limited, Ibrahim Mahama, is seeking Ghc2 million cedis in damages in a defamation suit filed against the Communications Director of Ghana Gas Company, Ernest Owusu Bempah. Mr. Owusu Bempah, during the course of a live television discussion on an Accra-based\u00a0television station, UTV, alleged accused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":404118,"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":[18188,3,2383],"class_list":["post-412090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ernest-owusu-bempah","tag-ghana-news","tag-ibrahim-mahama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412090","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=412090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/404118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}