Private businessman, Mr Ibrahim Mahama, has sued the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Bernard Antwi Boasiako for defamation.
Ibrahim Mahama’s suit follows allegation made by the top NPP executive that Hajia4Real is the girlfriend of ex-President Mahama’s brother.
Chairman Wontumi, alleged that Ibrahim Mahama, was the person behind the expensive Range Rover gift Hajia4Real received on her birthday.
The NPP Chair Wontumi reportedly claimed that the businessman benefitted from stolen state funds when his brother, John Mahama, was President.
In the writ, Mr. Mahama quotes Chairman Wontumi, who was speaking on Wontumi TV, as saying:
“He has bought a car, it is said he has bought a car for Hajia for Real. Then he has bought a house and given it to her in addition, then he has snatched Kenpong’s girl. Because the money that [he has], it was when we just came into power, that his brother went and stole money for him. Do you understand?”
An electronic copy of the defamation suit available to JiveGH.com has the document number as GJ/1213/2020 in the High Court/Circuit Court of Justice.
The defendants mentioned are Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Chairman Wontumi), Wontumi Multimedia Co. Ltd (Wontumi Communications) and Kenneth Mensah.
The editor of daillymailgh.com, Kenneth Mensah, has also been sued and is facing the same defamation claims.
Kenneth Mensah published Chairman Wontumi’s comments on his website.
Ibrahim Mahama is seeking GHc 5 million in damages for the said defamatory comments.
Ibrahim Mahama is also demanding an unqualified apology and “retraction of the said [defamatory] statements within seven days of judgement.”
