Just In: Court dismisses Anas’ GHS25m suit against Kennedy Agyapong

Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ 25 million defamation lawsuit against Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has been dismissed by the Accra High Court.

The judge, Justice Eric Baah, ruled that Anas Aremeyaw Anas had failed to demonstrate that Ken Agyapong had defamed him by airing the documentary “Who watches the watchman,” instead arguing that the video revealed shady dealings that Anas and his associates had engaged in.

This comes after airing his investigative piece #Number 12, which exposed some alleged rots in Ghana Football, the journalist filed a GH$25,000,000 lawsuit over some comments the MP had allegedly made against him in public.

Mr. Agyapong was ordered to pay GHC25 million to Anas as compensation for the false information the MP released about him.

The court came to the conclusion that Anas was engaging in investigative terrorism, not investigative journalism, and that Agyapong had every right to refer to Anas as such.

Kennedy Agyapong, speaking in support of the decision and accompanied by Kwesi Nyantakyi and other supporters, insisted that Anas was corrupt and a blackmailer.

The court however determined that Agyapong had presented adequate proof that the plaintiff had used the conclusions of his research to ask for money from people who were involved in the evidence he had gathered “a blackmailer, corrupt, an extortionist, and evil”.