Mr Ebo Barton Odro, Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Minister of Justice on Thursday filed a writ at an Accra High Court against Mr Ken A. Kuranchie, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Searchlight Newspaper and four others for defamation.
The rest in the writ are, Mr Darlington Antobam, Acting Editor, Mr Dennis A. Boateng, Journalist and Swift Media Ventures, Publishers of the newspaper.
The writ filed by Nana Ato Dadzie of Dadzie and Associates of Sambah Chambers in Accra is praying the court for a declaration that a publication in the newspaper on March 27, 2012 against Mr Odro who is also the Member of Parliament for Cape Coast were complete fabrication and defamatory.
In addition, a GH?1,000,000.00 aggravated or exemplary damages against the defendants jointly and severally for defamation and an order to them to publish a retraction of the publication within seven days from the date of judgement with equal prominence as the offending publication.
The writ prayed the court for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants and each of them either by themselves or by their servants or agents or otherwise from further publishing the said words or any of them or any words to the like effect of and concerning the plaintiff.
It sought costs for prosecuting the present suit on a full indemnity basis.
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