Paramount chief to sue GBC, New Times

Accra (Greater Accra), 19th May 99 ?

Nana Adjei Ampofo, Paramount Chief of Goaso Traditional Area, has said he will commence legal action against the Chief Executives of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and New Times Corporation and Mr Frank Okyere, a journalist of New Times Corporation in Kumasi for defamation.

In a statement issued in Accra on Tuesday, he said he would commence the action in 30 days from May 17, 1999.

"The action arises from a defamatory news item, broadcast over the network of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation on or about the 27th day of April, 1999 and on subsequent days which was heard in over 120, and a publication in the Ghanaian Times of the 28th of April or thereabouts and on subsequent days.

"The said news item alleged among other things that I pounced on a woman and beat her up at Manhyia, Kumasi. It also added that soon after doing that I wept uncontrollably.

"These statements are false and were maliciously and viciously published to ridicule, humiliate and disgrace me."