{"id":403792,"date":"2017-07-21T10:11:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T10:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/21\/songo-abatay-and-multimedia-beg-nyantakyi-to-accept-gh-40000-compensation\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T10:11:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T10:11:56","slug":"songo-abatay-and-multimedia-beg-nyantakyi-to-accept-gh-40000-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/21\/songo-abatay-and-multimedia-beg-nyantakyi-to-accept-gh-40000-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Songo, Abatay and Multimedia beg Nyantakyi to accept GH? 40,000 compensation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Friday, 21 July 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Graphic.com.gh <\/p>\n<p>2017-07-21<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/24255849.295.jpg\" alt=\"Songomoney\" title=\"Songomoney\" width=\"295\" height=\"146\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Nyantakyi is seeking damages from MGL and its journalists<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1500631916_111_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Corporate Legal Concepts (CPL), lawyers representing the Multimedia Group Limited and two of its journalists in a $2m libel suit filed by the GFA President Kwesi Nyantakyi are pleading with him to accept GH? 40,000 as compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Nyantakyi is seeking damages from MGL and its journalists Patrick Osei Agyemang (alias Songo) and Kofi Asare Brako (alias Abatay, who now works with Atinka FM) for allegedly calling him &#8220;the head of a Mafia&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Nyantakyi, a vice President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), claims Asempa FM &#8211; a local-language FM station owned by MGL &#8211; tarnished his image in a series of broadcasts involving two of their journalists.<\/p>\n<p>However, a leaked letter addressed to Nyantakyi&#8217;s lawyers, [email\u00a0protected] by Corporate Legal Concepts pleads with Nyantakyi to &#8220;in the spirit of reconcillation&#8221; accept the amount of GHC 40,000 as compensation for what has transpired.<\/p>\n<p><b>Nyantakyi not interested in compensation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not interested in money or punishment but to set the record straight,&#8221; Nyantakyi, a Fifa Council member, told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p>Thadeus Sory, Nyantakyi&#8217;s lawyer, told BBC Sport that his client was described as &#8216;heading a mafia&#8217; and stealing money meant for the GFA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve called me a &#8216;thief&#8217;, &#8216;armed robber&#8217; and a &#8216;corrupt&#8217; man,&#8221; added Nyantakyi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have sued them. I want to uphold standards in journalism in Ghana which have been thrown to the dogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The allegations are defamatory. To call him the head of a mafia is to impute criminality,&#8221; said Thadeus Sory, Nyantakyi&#8217;s lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>The GFA president&#8217;s conduct has been under scrutiny since a government-instituted panel of enquiry recommended last year that he refund $412,000 budgeted for the 2014 World Cup, &#8220;which he has failed to account for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nyantakyi, who has led Ghanaian football since 2005, is challenging the enquiry&#8217;s verdict in court.<\/p>\n<p>Agyeman, one of the two journalists being sued, refused to be drawn on the libel suit when contacted by BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My lawyers have advised me not to speak,&#8221; he replied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will show up in court on Monday, because we have been summoned to do so,&#8221; Ekyi Quarm, MBL&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer, told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: 50 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Friday, 21 July 2017 Source: Graphic.com.gh 2017-07-21 Nyantakyi is seeking damages from MGL and its journalists &#13; Corporate Legal Concepts (CPL), lawyers representing the Multimedia Group Limited and two of its journalists in a $2m libel suit filed by the GFA President Kwesi Nyantakyi are pleading with him to accept GH? 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