Seidu links: Forget it! I will not excuse – Sammy Gyamfi tells NAPO

General News of Monday, June 17, 2019

Source: kasapafmonline.com

2019-06-17

Sammy Gyamfi, head of communications at the National Democratic Congress, the largest opposition party, described the bluffing of Education Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh as saying he should not apologize to the minister for his defamatory remarks.

The lawyers of Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh, Minister of Education and MP for Manhyia South, wrote to Mr. Sammy Gyamfi asking him to come back on what they had described as defamatory statements linking the minister to the One of the accused among Canadian women. case of kidnapping.

At a press conference held on Thursday, June 13, Gyamfi reportedly stated that there was a "link" and a "relationship" between Dr. Opoku Prempeh, commonly known as NAPO. [Nana Poku] and Seidu Yakubu, also known as "MBA", one of the accused at the time of the abduction of the two Canadian women in Kumasi on June 4, 2019.

"Seidu's badociation with the nuclear plant is more than what we perceive. He is presumed that he is the personal bodyguard of Asokore Mampong's MCE, Alhaji Alidu Seidu, and a shopping boy for the deputy of Manhyia, Hon Mathew Opoku Prempeh and the regional chairman of the NPP Manhyia, as well as the President of the Royal Asymi Gendarmerie, Wtumi Wontumi at the press conference according to the lawyers of Dr. Opoku Prempeh.

However, lawyers, Sarkodie Baffour Awuah and Partners, insist that "the aforementioned statement is not only false, but malicious, since Seidu said that he is not a shopping boy" of Dr. Opoku Prempeh.

They argued that Mr. Gyamfi's statement was a suggestion by Dr. Opoku Prempeh to allow himself and badociates with persons suspected of committing the crime of abduction, and attempted to attribute to "the inappropriate conduct of our client with people you call thugs ".

The lawyers notified that they had received instructions to initiate legal proceedings against both of them they did not honor the requests within 48 hours.

Sammy Gyamfi, a qualified lawyer, insisted that he did not see any defamation or malice in the statement he made and that he would not retract.

"I do not excuse to return to Matthew Opoku Prempah or withdraw my statement about him. If someone makes a statement saying that it is alleged, does that make his statement defamatory or malicious? I have no excuse for Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempah, all I said is the truth and the facts. If someone says that what I said is defamatory and that his lawyers advise him to go to court and think that he can detect malice, he may take management, the judge will eventually decide if there is indeed malice in my case. statement or not. I have nothing to withdraw or to excuse regarding this statement. "