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GHc10M Defamation: Kan Dapaah’s quest to seek costs denied, case adjourned to Feb.28

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January 27, 2025
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GHc10M Defamation: Kan Dapaah’s quest to seek costs denied, case adjourned to Feb.28
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The High Court in Accra has adjourned the GHC10 million defamation case initiated by former National Security Minister, Albert Kan Dapaah, against Oliver Barker-Vormawor to February 28, 2025.

Bright Otchere Adjekum, counsel for Kan Dapaah, on Monday January 27, 2025 attempted to seek costs against the defendant when he was shown a letter from Dr. Justice Srem Sai, counsel for Oliver Barker-Vormawor, requesting an adjournment due to his unavailability.

Otchere Adjekum admitted that he had been informed of the letter but had yet to see it.

After being shown a copy by the court, he described the letter as a “lame excuse.”

He argued that the grounds for adjournment were not valid, citing ill health or appearing before the Court of Appeal or Supreme Court as proper grounds.

He prayed the court to discharge his client, who was scheduled to face further cross-examination from the defense, and award costs against the defendant.

However, the court, presided over by Justice Rev. Fr. Joseph Adu-Owusu Agyeman, did not entertain the request and instead adjourned the case.

Barker-Vormawor, who was initially absent when the case was called, arrived later, and the court urged him to ensure his lawyer was present at the next hearing.

The case centers on a defamation suit filed by Kan Dapaah against Barker-Vormawor, seeking damages of GHC10 million.

NSC Briefs

On November 20 last year, Albert Kan Dapaah opened his case. Moments after his lawyers, led by Otchere Adjekum, led him to give his testimony, his cross-examination started.

Under cross-examination from Dr. Justice Srem Sai, the National Security Minister told the High Court in Accra that activities of the #FixTheCountry Movement and Oliver Barker-Vormawor featured in “a few of his briefs” at the National Security Council meetings.

According to him, though “my briefs are given orally, there have been a few occasions where it has featured in my (written) briefs.”

Albert Kan Dapaah made this known while facing cross-examination from lawyers of Oliver Barker-Vormawor, led by Dr. Justice Srem Sai, in a case where the minister is demanding a GHC10 million defamation sum.

The National Security Minister is seeking GHC10 million from Barker-Vormawor for an alleged bribery allegation made against him.

Background

The National Security Minister has accused the former FixTheCountry Movement convener of defamation and has initiated legal action against him.

Albert Kan Dapaah’s defamation suit was initiated over comments said to have been made by Barker-Vormawor, which the minister alleged defamed him.

The action by Kan Dapaah comes on the back of allegations made by the Fix-The-Country convener that the National Security and some government officials had met him and offered him money to stop his activism against the government.

The allegation was refuted by the National Security Minister, who subsequently filed a defamation suit in court against Barker-Vormawor.

The minister is seeking “recovery of the sum of Ten Million Ghana Cedis (GHC10,000,000.00) as General Damages, including Aggravated and/or Exemplary Damages for Defamation for the words uttered by the Defendant.”

He is also seeking “an apology for and retraction of the words complained of supra” and “a perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant from repeating similar or other defamatory words against the Plaintiff.”

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