{"id":1105744,"date":"2022-05-31T18:42:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/31\/accra-high-court-orders-rapper-sarkodie-to-appear-in-court-over-kantanka-automobile-issue\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T18:42:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:42:57","slug":"accra-high-court-orders-rapper-sarkodie-to-appear-in-court-over-kantanka-automobile-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/31\/accra-high-court-orders-rapper-sarkodie-to-appear-in-court-over-kantanka-automobile-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Accra High Court orders rapper Sarkodie to appear in court over Kantanka automobile issue \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>An Accra High Court has ordered Ghanaian rapper, Michael Owusu Addo, aka Sarkodie to appear in court to testify against a case that involves Kantanka Automobile and one Jude Osei.<\/p>\n<p>According to the writ served to the rapper, he has knowledge of a deal that involves Kantanka Automobile and the complainant Jude Osei.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkodie is summoned to appear in court on July 14.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Kantanka Automobile and Kwadwo Safo Jnr. have been sued over a failed social media promise with an account kantanka_daily.<\/p>\n<p>In a writ issued on May 14, 2019, Plaintiff Jude Osei said he got a private from Kantaka Automobile to share a picture of Kantaka Automobile car on Twitter and would duly be rewarded with a Kantanka Mensa car should he manage to get 30,000 retweets.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>After almost a year, Jude Osei was able to gain 30,000 retweets. He subsequently sent a message to Kantanka for his reward but around the time he asked for his car, Kantanka automobile issued a disclaimer that the general public should treat any tweet offering Kantanka Mensa in exchange for 30,000 retweets as a hoax.<\/p>\n<p>Jude Osei who was fumed about the company\u2019s silence and failure to issue a disclaimer for almost a year but only issued it after he had managed to amass the needed retweets headed to court.<\/p>\n<p>Jude Osei\u2019s lawyer, Felix Nana Osei argued that the account is not fake as the handle was once used to tweet a message to Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie to which the rapper responded.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet was also retweeted by Kwadwo Kantanka Jnr. with the same handle, Kantanka_daily.<\/p>\n<p>He also argues that, even if the account was fake, the company should not have waited for over a year before issuing a disclaimer.<\/p>\n<p>They are however demanding: <em>A declaration that at all material times the Defendants caused, allowed and or permitted me @kantanka daily Twitter account to carry itself as an agent of the 1st Defendant, damages for breach of contract and a declaration that @kantanka_daily entered into a valid contract with the Plaintiff to the knowledge of the Defendants among others.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summon below;<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; An Accra High Court has ordered Ghanaian rapper, Michael Owusu Addo, aka Sarkodie to appear in court to testify against a case that involves Kantanka Automobile and one Jude Osei. According to the writ served to the rapper, he has knowledge of a deal that involves Kantanka Automobile and the complainant Jude Osei. 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