Kwaku Baako (L) won a defamation case against Kennedy Agyapong in 2020
The Court of Appeal has reportedly ordered a retrial of the defamation case between former New Patriotic Party flagbearer hopeful Kennedy Agyapong and veteran journalist Kweku Baako Jnr.
According to multiple reports, the court ordered Kweku Baako to refund all payments received pursuant to the earlier High Court judgment, which was in his favour, within 30 days.
In June 2020, an Accra High Court ruled in favour of the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr, in his case against the then-Member of Parliament for Assin Central.
The court gave Ken a 30-day ultimatum to retract and apologise three times on the platforms he used to defame Kweku Baako Jnr and also to pay him GH¢100,000 in damages and a cost of GH¢30,000.
Kweku Baako Jnr, in 2018, sued the former Assin Central MP at the Accra High Court over defamatory comments made on different occasions at an Accra-based radio station.
The lawmaker is quoted to have said, “You [referring to the plaintiff], Anas and your lawyer, yeah, they are real evil guys [referring to the plaintiff and Anas] … Kweku Baako will collapse the NPP government should he allow it. Have you seen what he started with Charlotte Osei…?”
Baako, in the writ of summons, also stated that the defendant, on a talk show (Adom Badwam) on Adom FM on July 24, 2018, with host Omanhene Kwabena Asante, when one of the panellists suggested to the defendant that the plaintiff is very loyal to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and a best friend to the President, the defendant, referring to him [Kweku Baako], said: “You don’t know the guy very well. Best of friends because of what he can get… You don’t know the guy very well.”
He said that Ken also made the following disparaging statement against him on the same show: “I said he is not a saint. Kweku Baako is not a saint. He is evil … very evil man … he’s a very evil man.”
He asked the court to order Ken to “publish on three consecutive occasions on the same platform that he published the defamatory words”, give “an unqualified retraction and an apology, with the same prominence as given to the issuance of the defamatory words” and “other costs, including legal fees and any others as this honourable court may deem fit.”
He also requested damages in the sum of GH¢25 million for defamation.
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