Asiedu Nketia & # 39; thrown & # 39; | Policy 2019-01-24

Policy of Thursday, January 24, 2019

Source: dailyguideafrica.com

2019-01-24

The Secretary General of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) opposition, Asiedu Nketia, has decided to ensure that a lawsuit filed against him by the chairman of the audit board collapsed. .

This follows the rejection of an application filed by his lawyers that aimed to put an end to the complaint against him by Professor Dua-Agyemang.

The NDC Secretary, who claims to have evidence and witnesses in support of his allegations against the former Auditor General, was asking the High Court in Accra to dismiss the complaint because he can not rely on the English translation of the words. held in the local dialect "Twi".

The court, presided over by Judge Sophia R. Bernasko-Essah, dismissed the application and ordered the plaintiff to modify his file to include the original comments that had been made in twi.

Asiedu Nketia therefore has 14 days to present his defense, which opens the way to the hearing of the case.

The former Auditor General, Professor Dua-Agyeman, who is now Chairman of the Audit Service Board, has dragged Asiedu Nketia to court to claim 15 million Egyptian pounds from remarks made on the radio. aimed at damaging his reputation.

The secretary of the NDC, better known as "General Mosquito", was accused of uttering defamatory statements against Professor Dua-Agyeman that he liked to produce false audit reports on the basis of which he had been fired by the badociation of accountants.

But in what could be described as a delaying tactic, his attorney, Johnson Normesinu, filed a motion and asked the court to strike the complainant's pleadings and dismiss the complaint on the grounds that the pleadings did not disclose any cause of death. 39, reasonable action. .

According to him, the court can not rely on the English translations without having access to the original comments of Twi, considered defamatory by the plaintiff.

But the private lawyer, Gary Nimarko, lead counsel to Professor Dua-Agyeman, objected to the petition, saying the court could not dismiss the case because Twi's initial observations did not include the case. had not been notified.

According to him, Asiedu Nketia filed a counter-claim in which he claimed to have evidence and witnesses to confirm his statements.

Declaration

In his trial, Professor Dua-Agyeman stated that, without any foundation or probable cause, Asiedu Nketia "had ostensibly sought to undermine the plaintiff's integrity, dignity, reputation and ridicule him. members of society who thought well.

The plaintiff claims that Asiedu Nketia, on October 2, 2018, made baseless and disparaging statements about a radio station based in Accra, Neat FM, accusing it of producing fake accounts audit in 1983 while he was at the audit department and led to his dismissal.