{"id":339150,"date":"2017-07-25T12:40:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T12:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=339150"},"modified":"2017-07-25T12:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T12:40:27","slug":"hackman-to-bag-ghc-800000-from-daily-post-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/hackman-to-bag-ghc-800000-from-daily-post-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackman to bag GHc 800,000 from Daily Post publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Accra High Court has ordered publishers of the Daily Post newspaper and its editor, Michael Dokosi, to pay an amount of GHc 800,000 to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) board Chairman, Hackman Owusu Agyeman.<\/p>\n
The amount was awarded as damages for a defamatory publication against him.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”eJzpjgibopKSriyyacmJ8c1ePr5Mr7jm”]The court made the order after it found them guilty of defaming Mr. Owusu Agyeman.<\/p>\n
The court also asked the defendants to, within two weeks, retract the defamatory story and apologise on the front-page of the paper.<\/p>\n