Kwaku Asomah- Cheremeh, Lands Minister for Nana Addo‘s government is reportedly suing
Mensah Thompson, Director of the Alliance for Social Equity & Public Accountability & a group allegedly aligned to NDC for defamation.
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Mr. Kwaku Asomah is seeking GHC 10 million damages from the defendants.
Abraham Otabil PRO for the ministry confirmed the reports.
Is alleged Mr.Mensah Thompson, accused the Minister of extorting monies from illegal miners.
In the write of summons, the Minister said on April 13, Mensah Thompson, in a press statement, accused Mr Asomah-Cheremeh of busily engaging in the extortion of monies from small-scale miners, otherwise called ‘galamseyers’ in the Western Region during the coronavirus lockdown.
Mr Thompson also alleged that the Minister together with his aide, visited several ‘galamsey’ sites in Tarkwa, Wassa Akropong and Asankragwa demanding bribes ranging from GHC10,000 to GHC20,000 from the ‘galamsey’ operators before allowing them to continue their activities.
Mr Asomah-Cheremeh in his response said the accusations are “untrue,
baseless and have injured his hard-won reputation and lowered him in the eyes of the right-thinking members of the public”.
The Minister prayed the court to order the defendant to render an unqualified apology to him through the same medium of publication and retract the defamatory statement.
