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Prof. Dua-Agyemang<\/strong> and<\/strong> Asiedu Nketia <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moves\nby the General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)\nAsiedu Nketia, to get a suit brought agains"},"modified":"2019-01-24T11:57:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T11:57:36","slug":"asiedu-nketia-thrown-out-dailyguide-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/24\/asiedu-nketia-thrown-out-dailyguide-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Asiedu Nketia Thrown Out – DailyGuide Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prof. Dua-Agyemang<\/strong> and<\/strong> Asiedu Nketia <\/strong><\/p>\n

Moves
\nby the General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)
\nAsiedu Nketia, to get a suit brought against him by the Chairman of the Audit
\nService Board thrown out of court has crumbled.<\/p>\n

This
\nfollows the dismissal of an application filed by his lawyers which sought to throw
\nout the suit filed against him by Prof. Dua-Agyemang.<\/p>\n

The
\nNDC scribe who claims he has evidence and witnesses to support his allegations
\nagainst the former Auditor General was praying an Accra High Court to dismiss
\nthe suit because it cannot rely on the English translations of the comments he
\nmade in the local \u2018Twi\u2019 dialect.<\/p>\n

But
\nthe court presided over by Justice Sophia R. Bernasko-Essah, dismissed the application
\nand directed the plaintiff to amend his case to include the original comments
\nwhich were made in the Twi language.<\/p>\n

Asiedu
\nNketia therefore has 14 days within which to file his defence which then paves
\nthe way for the substantive matter to be heard.<\/p>\n

Former
\nAuditor General, Prof Dua-Agyeman, who is now the board chairman of the Audit
\nService,\u00a0 dragged Asiedu Nketia to court
\ndemanding GH\u20b515 million over comments he made on radio which intended to damage
\nhis reputation.<\/p>\n

The
\nNDC scribe popularly known as \u2018General Mosquito\u2019 has been accused of making
\nslanderous statements against Prof. Dua-Agyeman that he was fond of churning
\nout fake audit reports based on which he was sacked by the accountants
\nassociation.<\/p>\n

But
\nin what could be described as a delay tactics, his lawyer, Johnson Normesinu,
\nfiled a motion and prayed the court to strike out the plaintiff\u2019s pleadings as
\nwell as dismiss the suit on the grounds that the pleadings did not disclose any
\nreasonable cause of action.<\/p>\n

It
\nis his argument that the court cannot rely on the English translations without
\nhaving access to the original comments made in Twi which the plaintiff finds to
\nbe defamatory.<\/p>\n

But
\nprivate legal practitioner, Gary Nimarko, lead counsel for Prof. Dua- Agyeman,
\nin a sharp rebuttal, opposed the application saying the court cannot dismiss
\nthe case because it has not been served with the original comments made in Twi.<\/p>\n

According
\nto him, Asiedu Nketia filed a counter claim to the suit in which he claimed
\nthat he has evidence and witnesses to confirm his statements. <\/p>\n

Statement of Claim<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prof.
\nDua-Agyeman in his suit avers that without basis or probable cause, Asiedu
\nNketia \u201costensibly sought to impugn the integrity, dignity and reputation of
\nthe Plaintiff and to ridicule him in the eyes of right thinking members of
\nsociety\u201d.<\/p>\n

The plaintiff avers that Asiedu Nketia on October 2, 2018 made some unsubstantiated and disparaging statements on an Accra based radio station, Neat FM accusing him of producing fake audit accounts in 1983 while he was at the Audit Service leading to his dismissal.<\/p>\n

BY Gibril Abdul Razak<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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