{"id":1227387,"date":"2022-10-18T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/18\/mireku-duker-sues-dompim-pepesa-chief-others-for-defamation-demands-gh%c2%a210m\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T10:29:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:29:07","slug":"mireku-duker-sues-dompim-pepesa-chief-others-for-defamation-demands-gh%c2%a210m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/18\/mireku-duker-sues-dompim-pepesa-chief-others-for-defamation-demands-gh%c2%a210m\/","title":{"rendered":"Mireku Duker sues Dompim-Pepesa chief, others for defamation; demands GH\u00a210m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for the Tarkwa Nsuem constituency, George Mireku Duker, has sued the Dompim-Pepesa chief, Nana Nyowah Panyin IV, for defamation after claims the MP was involved in illegal mining.<\/p>\n<p>Also cited in the October 14 lawsuit are the Multimedia Group and the Class Media Group.<\/p>\n<p>The comments the MP deems defamatory were made on Joy FM and Accra FM.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mireku Duker, who is also the Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, wants the persons he has sued to retract and apologise for their role in spreading the claims.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he wants GH\u00a210 million as well as aggravated damages from the publication of the allegations by the two media companies.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Nyowah Panyin IV also cited the Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, when making his claims about illegal mining activity in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe words complained off are absolutely false, products of the defendants\u2019 imagination and were mischievously designed by the defendant to disparage him, stain his reputation, court public disaffection for him and to bring him into abhorrence in the eyes of right-thinking members of the public and the global community,\u201d Mr. Mireku Duker\u2019s lawsuit said.<\/p>\n<p>The MP maintains that his reputation has been \u201cviolently damaged\u201d and his chances of winning the next election have suffered.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the two stations did not give him a chance to respond to the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Since the lawsuit was filed, Joy News has published an apology to Mr. Mireku Duker and Mr. Darko-Mensah.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Yn9i14DyHNY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"George Mireku Duker speaks on recent development in mining sector  | Breakfast Daily\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yn9i14DyHNY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament for the Tarkwa Nsuem constituency, George Mireku Duker, has sued the Dompim-Pepesa chief, Nana Nyowah Panyin IV, for defamation after claims the MP was involved in illegal mining. Also cited in the October 14 lawsuit are the Multimedia Group and the Class Media Group. The comments the MP deems defamatory were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1227391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227387","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=1227387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}