Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta has sued the host of Onua TV’s ‘Onua Maakye’ Captain Smart for defamation.
According to a writ filed at the High Court on Friday June 2, 2023, Captain Smart during his show on May 22, revealed that Mr Ofori-Atta had taken a 10% share out of the International Money Fund’s $3 billion bailout for Ghana.
The writ further states that these words were defamatory of the plaintiff, and were intended to damage his reputation both personally and professionally. Ofori-Atta’s lawyers claim that the statement by Smart was entirely false and without merit, alleging that the assertion that the Finance Minister had taken a 10% cut of the IMF loan was entirely untrue.
The statement of case filed by the minister’s lawyer read:
“The above statements are not only palpably false, absolutely fabricated but were also deliberately calculated to disparage the Plaintiff. Those words are malicious and were clearly further intended to convey and would be understood to convey meanings that diminish the Plaintiff in the minds of right thinking members of society”
Ken Ofori Attah in the suit demands “recovery of the sum of Ten Million Ghana Cedis (GH¢10,000,000.00) as general damages including aggravated and/or exemplary damages for defamation for the libel uttered by Defendant”.
Government has paid 10% of the IMF $6Billion to Ken Ofori Atta as the advisor to government.
— NewsDaily24 (@NewsDaily_24) June 3, 2023
—Captain Smart
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