Private legal practitioner Kofi Bekai has opined that former National Signals Bureau (NSB) Director-General Kwabena Adu Boahene and his wife Angela Adjei Boateng should have exercised patience in the defamation suit they filed against Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine.
The lawyer stated that the couple should have waited for the charges levelled against them to have gone through court, and if vindicated and the state was unable to prove its case, then they should sue for malicious prosecution.
He was, however, quick to add that the defamation suit can still go on while the criminal charges levelled against them also travel alongside it.
He was responding to a question on the possibilities or issues that may arise out of the two cases.
The former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau, Kwabena Adu Boahene, and his wife have filed a defamation lawsuit against the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine.
They are demanding damages and accusing the minister of making derogatory comments about them.
The suit was filed over statements made during a press conference held on March 24, 2025.
According to them, Dr Ayine’s public remarks falsely portrayed them as criminals and fraudsters who had embezzled state funds and engaged in money laundering.
The couple are also alleging that the remarks by the minister have severely damaged their reputations and caused distress, public ridicule, and emotional harm, particularly affecting their children, who have reportedly faced taunts in school.
After a few days of filing their lawsuit, the Attorney General also filed charges against the over-corruption offences to the tune of several millions of cedis.
Together with two others, Mildred Donkor and Advantage Solutions Limited, they are facing charges of 11 counts of offences, including stealing, money laundering, defrauding by false pretences, and wilfully causing financial loss.
In total, Adu-Boahene is alleged to have transferred approximately GHS 49 million (around $7 million) from the NSB’s funds into his personal accounts, falsely justifying these transactions as payments for the cyber defence systems, together with his accomplice.
Mr Kofi Bekai, responding to the issues, posited that “the criminal case (charges against the couple) and the civil case (defamation lawsuit) can go alongside, but what will be of more importance is that in the criminal case, you could have waited so that after you have been exonerated, then you sue for malicious prosecution. But he has already sued them for defamation. They may choose to withdraw the defamation case or go ahead with it. However, in both cases (criminal and civil), you would have to prove your case. The two can go alongside, and the parties would have to prove their cases in court.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
