An Accra High Court, today, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at about 9.15 am, granted an application for substituted service in the 5 million cedis defamation suit brought against Captain Smart and his employers, Media General, by Samuel Koku Anyidoho.
Mr Koku Anyidoho, in January this year, filed a suit against Captain Smart and Media General after Captain Smart made very deliberate and damaging statements about Koku Anyidoho vis-à-vis his tenure as Head of Communications and Presidential Spokesperson at the Presidency during the tenure of the late President John Evans Atta-Mills.
Feeding into years of extremely spurious allegations levelled against Koku Anyidoho in relation to his supposed sour working relationship with the then Vice President John Dramani Mahama, inter alia, Captain Smart said with all false certainty that he knows it for a fact that Koku Anyidoho used to “insult Vice President John Mahama face-to-face at the Flagstaff House”.
Also, he said Koku Anyidoho, as “Director of Operations at Flagstaff House, used to disrespect JM and even foolishly lock up the office of Vice President John Mahama to prevent him from entering his office to work.”
According to Captain Smart, Koku thought he was so powerful and had not an iota of respect for Vice President John Mahama, questioning the leadership integrity of President Atta-Mills for allowing Koku to be so powerful and disrespectful.
Adding to his allegations, Captain Smart said Koku was so “disrespectful to the extent that John Mahama wrote a resignation letter, and it took former President Kufuor and Asantehene Otumfuor Osei-Tutu II to intervene to get John Mahama to stay in office.
For the record, Koku Anyidoho never worked at the Flagstaff House and was never Director of Operations at the Flagstaff House.
According to Koku Anyidoho, “ I worked at the Castle, Osu, and NOT Flagstaff House, so he got the office location wrong and also got the designation wrong. It stands to reason that every other thing he said about Koku Anyidoho was also wrong, and that’s why he is running away from being served because he can’t defend himself. The law has very long arms and knows how to catch people who attempt to run away from it.”
Koku Anyidoho therefore filed a suit, but the court has found it very difficult to serve the defendants because all attempts to serve them by the bailiff proved futile, so lawyers for Koku filed a motion for substituted service, which was granted this morning.
Per the court order, the substituted service notice will be posted on (1) the notice board of the High Court, (2) walls of Media General, (3) by electronic notice via GhanaWeb (because GhanaWeb published the false information by Captain Smart), and other online portals.
After posting the Substituted Service Notice based on the official court order, Captain Smart and Media General have 10 days to respond through their lawyers or face the wrath of the court via summary judgement and other consequential orders.
Her Ladyship Ellen Lordina Serwaa Mireku, Justice of the High Court, General Jurisdiction 8, granted the order.
Kwame Osei, Esq., held brief with lawyer Yaw Awuku-Asabre, Esq., of Awuku-Asabre Law Consult.
