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General News on Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-07-17
Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, sued the editor of The Herald newspaper, Larry Dogbe, and the newspaper's publisher, Prime Mark Company Limited, for defamation.
This is the case of the Minister of Foreign Affairs that an article published on the front page of the newspaper The Herald of June 10, 2019 with the title "The judge releases the notorious son of the prison minister" has defamed her.
According to his brief submitted to the High Court of Accra on July 16, 2019 by his lawyer, Mr. Gary Nimako Marfo, this story suggests that she had engaged in criminal activities using her influence. policy "to order the release of a convicted felon. . "
She contends that the story was also published on the online portal of The Herald.
She argues that she does not have and can order the release of jail from any convicted felon, as she has no power to do it.
"The defamatory statements issued by the defendants were carefully calculated to tarnish the image and the hard-earned reputation of the plaintiff.
"The defamatory statements were made for no good reason and were intended to ridicule the plaintiff, to decommission her and to reduce her image in the eyes of members of society who had a right thinking," she said.
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Ms. Botchwey seeks compensatory damages amounting to 10 million Ghc for loss of reputation and an order directing the accused to withdraw "the defamatory publication and to make an unqualified excuse of the same importance as the defamatory publication ".
It also wants the court to declare the publication defamatory and unfounded and order the defendants, their agents or their rightful claimants to stop making defamatory publications against them.
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