Mr. Kwaku Asomah- Cheremeh, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has sued the Executive Director of Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mensah Thompson, at an Accra High Court for defamation.
The Minister is seeking 10 million Ghana cedis damages from the defendant.
Mr. Abraham Otabil, the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, confirmed the filing of the suit by the Minister to the Ghana News Agency, in Accra, on Tuesday.
Mr. Thompson is alleged to have accused the Minister of extorting monies from illegal miners.
In the writ of summons, the Minister said on April 13, Mr. Thompson, in a press statement, accused Mr. Asomah-Cheremeh of busily engaging in the extortion of monies from small-scale miners, otherwise called 'galamseyers' in the Western Region during the coronavirus lockdown.
Mr. Thompson also alleged that the Minister together with his aide, visited several 'galamsey' sites in Tarkwa, Wassa Akropong and Asankragwa, demanding bribes ranging from GH¢10,000 to GH¢20,000 from the 'galamsey' operators before allowing them to continue their activities.
Mr. Asomah-Cheremeh in his response said the accusations are “untrue, baseless and have injured his hard-won reputation and lowered him in the eyes of the right-thinking members of the public”.
The Minister prayed the court to order the defendant to render an unqualified apology to him through the same medium of publication and retract the defamatory statement.
Source: GNA
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Lawyer Chereme please do mot listen to anyone on this send them to court to teach them sense that defamation is not part of politics, defamation is not part of democracy and primitive people cant use that to destroy hard working people's reputation. Ghana is not an island for some people to think our democracy and politucs should be about personal attacks instead of the real issues. If they have evidence the court should be the best place for thdm to answer. I'm highly glad this group has been sued. You need to be careful when dealing with a lawyer because he is a learned man and a scholar and his integrity is a great value to them. Incompetent ndc use blackmailing as a weapon against opponents regardless of what will happen to the reputation of the person and i'm really happy for this. Lawyer never lose guard to embolden them to continue misbehaving in the country and giving a bad name for the country to the outside world. Your integrity is being tarnished and letting them off the hook because somebody came begging will cost you later!I know you are a lawyer and you know what you doing, get the money and even donate to charity for blessing from GOD than setting these evil people free.
Let us resolve missing excavators that found their way to galamsey areas b/4 we talk about defarmation. Right now party hia sika