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General news for Sunday 24 January 2021
Source: The herald
01/24/2021
Ibrahim Mahama and Ernest Owusu Bempah
A High Court in Accra ordered the National Investment Bank (NIB) to release funds in the amount of GH ¢ 310,000.00 to an account held by Ernest Owusu Bempah with the bank and pay said amount to Ibrahim Mahama.
But there are reports that the communications manager of Ghana Gas Company Limited, has just over GH ¢ 101,000 in his bank.
This decision was administered by his cult, Judge Comfort K. Tasiame, on January 15, 2021, as a judgment in absentia (default judgment), when the garnishee did not appear despite his notification.
The Court issued the order following a petition filed with the Court by lawyer Reindorf Twumasi Ankrah, Mr Mahama’s lawyer, asking the Court to compel NIB to release funds held in an account belonging to said Owusu Bempah to Mr. Ibrahim as payment. of the judicial debt.
It can be recalled that the CEO of engineers and planners, Ibrahim Mahama, somewhere in 2018 sued Ernest Owusu Bempah, as well as the group of companies Despite, owners of the private TV channel UTV for defamation.
After that, a decision of a court presided over by Judge Georgina Mensah Datsa (High Court of Accra) in 2019 awarded all reparations except the cost of GH ¢ 2 million which the judge awarded GH ¢ 300,000. .
Mr. Ernest Owusu Bempah, in an appeal filed on Thursday, October 30, 2019, attempted to overturn the decision of High Judge Georgina Mensah-Datsa. But it seems that it did not succeed.
However, UTV was pardoned by Ibrahim Mahama with the fines waived when UTV apologized across all of its platforms on Thursday October 15, 2020 and Friday October 16, 2020, in return.
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