More problems for Asiedu Nketia

General News of Monday, February 11, 2019

Source: dailyguideafrica.com

2019-02-11

Professor Edward Dua-Agyemang, chairman of the Audit Service Board, has amended his order against the Secretary General of the National Democratic and Opposition Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia.

The plaintiff, in the amended writ, increased the compensatory damages from 15 million GHC to 20 million GHC.

The amendment follows an order from an Accra High Court directing the plaintiff to amend his statement to include the exact words that would have been uttered by the NDC scribe, which would be said defamatory.

The order was confirmed by a request from Asiedu Nketia's lawyers asking the court to dismiss the writ because the statement did not indicate a reasonable cause of action.

The NDC secretary, who claims to have evidence and witnesses in support of his allegations against the former Auditor General, was asking the court to dismiss the case because he could not rely on English translations of the comments he had held in the local dialect Twi.

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

Subsequently, the applicant amended the writ to include the exact word spoken in the local Twi dialect, which was certified by the Ghana Institute of Languages.

Gary Nimarko, the plaintiff's attorney, has since filed the amended statement and Asiedu Nketia has also been notified on January 30, 2019.

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 an badociation of accountants.

In his suit, Professor Dua-Agyeman stated that, without any foundation or probable cause, Asiedu Nketia "had ostensibly sought to undermine the plaintiff's integrity, dignity and reputation and to ridicule him to the eyes. 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 auditing in 1983 while he was at the service of auditing and had led to his dismissal.

However, the former Auditor General displeased with these comments, saying that he had elicited several comments and attracted media attention in Ghana and abroad, apparently to tarnish his reputation harshly. acquired.

Contrary to badertion of Asiedu Nketia, Professor Dua-Agyeman says that a letter from Professor Kwame Adom-Frimpong, President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ghana, dated October 15 2018, indicates that he is in good standing. since 1978 and has never been banned.