The Chief Executive Officer of the Atta-Mills Institute Koku Anyidoho has dragged a member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dzifa Gunu before the High Court over allegations that he (Anyidoho) murdered and used her 8-year daughter for ritual purposes.
The former deputy general secretary of the umbrella family in his statement of claim says the defendant on January 16, 2021, published an article on his Facebook page and casting serious insinuation on his integrity.
He said the article published made serious defamatory statements concerning him (Anyidoho).
He stated that the defendant made serious defamatory statements concerning him (Anyidoho) to wit he had made several attempts on the life of former President John Dramani Mahama visiting shrines in Benin and Togo to cause the premature death of the latter when the defendant knew his claims were untrue.
It is the case of the plaintiff that the defendant (Gunu) made a categorical statement that he (Anyidoho) caused the death of his 8-year-old daughter who passed away on November 7, 2021.
Mr. Anyidoho further avers that the defendant made a categorical statement that he (Anyidoho) was absent during the pre-burial, burial, and post burial ceremonies of his late daughter.
He among other things avers that the defendant made these claims with malicious intent the reason being that he (Gunu) failed to cross-check the veracity of his claims in his publications.
He said the defendant published the claims without any fact justifying the allegations of crime, illegality, and dishonesty against the plaintiff, and furthermore, these allegations imputed him (Anyidoho) in the offending publication is baseless and false.
He added the claims were made carelessly and recklessly without lawful excuse or justification and was calculated to injure the plaintiff’s reputation and to expose him to public ridicule, hatred, and contempt.
He is therefore demanding a sum of 10 million Ghana cedis for the defamatory statements published on the Facebook pages of the defendant.
He is also seeking aggravated damages for the “reckless and malicious publication”.
He further wants among other things an order for the court to grant a perpetual injunction retaining the defendant from publishing any further defamatory material about him (Anyidoho) and retraction and apology with the same prominences and circulation as the publication on January 16, 2021.
Read the full suit below
By: Rainbowradioonline.com
