Anas sues despite group, two Okay FM workers for defamation

General News on Thursday, April 18, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-04-18

Investigative journalist with Tiger Eye PI, Anas Aremeyaw Anas filed a lawsuit against the Despite group of companies as well as two employees with his subsidiary Okay FM for defamation.

This comes just two days after he sued the Multimedia Group Limited as well as three of his workers for the same reason.

The complainant sued his lawyer, Listowell Yesu Bukarson, and argued that the second and third defendants broadcast and published and / or broadcast or broadcast on the Okay FM network (a radio owned by the first respondent – despite the group ), defamatory remarks about him and his badociates during a discussion on the documentaries of their program called Ade Akye Abia.

The second accused (Kwame Nkrumah) and the third accused (Kwame Amoh) are broadcasters and presenters at Okay FM, particularly for the above-mentioned program.

Anas is again among others seeking damages, including costs and lawyers.

"Egro, the plaintiff, is seeking jointly and severally against the defendants damages for defamation contained in the publication mentioned on the writ of summons in the form of garnishment and reimbursement of costs, including the fees for damages. "lawyer," says the lawsuit.

The said stray comments were made on 7 March 2019 on the broadcast when the accused stated: "In their natural and ordinary sense, the words broadcast and published / republished and / or caused in such a way that they are broadcast and published / republished by the accused and reproduced in paragraph 6 above and have been understood as referring to the plaintiff; and they meant and were understood to mean that; the plaintiff is a criminal who tried to extort money from the President of Ghana, 500,000 GHC from an identifiable person, extort money from people by threatening defamation and defamation, extorting money from people through blackmail, bribes and corruption. "

"The plaintiff commits and promotes disorder, is a perverse and heinous person who is a destroyer of the nation." The plaintiff's criminal conduct encouraged other journalists to engage in extortion, bribery and bribery. and corruption, "added parts of the summons.

In what they described as a lawsuit, it is a unilateral conversation to be conducted, the complainant claims that the words complained of utterly false statements, and were broadcast and published / republished and / or forced to be broadcast and published / republished by the defendants to denigrate the plaintiff and create disaffection for him and put him in the water in the eyes of members of the Republic and the global community who think well.