{"id":1181783,"date":"2022-08-17T18:52:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/17\/chief-of-staff-sues-larry-dogbe-wants-%e2%82%b520m-paid-for-defamation\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:52:08","slug":"chief-of-staff-sues-larry-dogbe-wants-%e2%82%b520m-paid-for-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/17\/chief-of-staff-sues-larry-dogbe-wants-%e2%82%b520m-paid-for-defamation\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief of Staff sues Larry Dogbe, wants \u20b520m paid for defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Chief of Staff sues Larry Dogbe, wants \u20b520m paid for defamation\" title=\"Chief of Staff sues Larry Dogbe, wants \u20b520m paid for defamation\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare has sued Managing Editor of the Herald Newspaper, Larry Dogbe for defamation. <\/p>\n<p>She wants an Accra High Court to order Mr. Dogbe to pay her a total of GH\u20b520million for an alleged defamatory publication.<\/p>\n<p>An August 3, 2022 publication in the newspaper is the basis for this legal action. Mrs Osei-Opare says the paper alleged that she had interfered in the disposal of some vehicles belonging to the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST). This intervention is said to have resulted in a fraudulent process.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief of Staff describes the allegations as untrue and geared at tarnishing her reputation.<\/p>\n<p>In view of this, she wants \u201cA declaration that the Defendants\u2019 publication as particularized in the statement of claim that \u201cThe cars were disposed off under mysterious circumstances after an auction was halted midway in the name of the Chief of Staff in the Office of the President, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare\u201d is defamatory of the Plaintiff and same was made without any basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, she is demanding \u201cAn order of injunction directed at the defendants, agents, assigns, or privies from continuing to make any further defamatory publication about the Plaintiff\u201d and \u201can order of court directed at the defendants to retract the said defamatory publication and render an unqualified apology in the same prominence as the defamatory publication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Find a copy of the suit below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1AvFU4uFFHrfj75PSjDkotsxi2QPUHvN3\/preview\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" allow=\"autoplay\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare has sued Managing Editor of the Herald Newspaper, Larry Dogbe for defamation. She wants an Accra High Court to order Mr. Dogbe to pay her a total of GH\u20b520million for an alleged defamatory publication. An August 3, 2022 publication in the newspaper is the basis for this legal action. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1181785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[6092,231,1003,7717,8633,199,395,7663],"class_list":["post-1181783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-20m","tag-chief","tag-defamation","tag-dogbe","tag-larry","tag-paid","tag-staff","tag-sues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}