Alberta Afia Akoto, the Deputy Communication Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has dragged Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as A-Plus before an Accra High Court for defamation.
According to the Plaintiff, the Defendant also an Independent Parliamentary Candidate for Gomoa Central has made defamatory statements against her.
In the writs of summons, Afia Akoto, a former Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), claims that A Plus defamed her in a live Facebook post on July 12, 2024 which has reached many audience across the various social media platforms.
Madam Afia Akoto is seeking, a declaration that the statements made by the defendant in his Facebook post on July 12, 2024, are defamatory to the plaintiff, as detailed in paragraphs 9 and 12 of the statement of claim which the paper cannot reproduce.
The lawyers of the Plaintiff contend that the said words as uttered by A-Plus portrays Madam Afia Akoto in the public’s eye among others as a person with low morals; as a person who goes after peoples husbands; as a person who begs for sex and as a person who does not exhibit good morals to her children.
The plaintiff as a result wants the court to grant a perpetual injunction restraining the defendant from further publishing or causing to be published the said or similar defamatory statements about her.
Aside the demand for GH¢5 million damages, the NPP, Deputy Communication Director is seeking an order directing the defendant to retract the defamatory statements made on Facebook on July 12, 2024, and to issue an apology to the plaintiff with the same prominence.
Meanwhile, A Plus has 8 days to respond to the writ or in “default of your so doing, judgment may be given in your absence without further notice to you” the writ read.