A private legal practitioner and former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Tsatsu Tsikata, has sued Kofi Akpaloo, the presidential candidate of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), at the High Court in Accra for defamation.
He joined Excellence In Broadcasting (EIB) Network, the owner of GHOne Television, to the suit as the second defendant for allowing Mr Akpaloo to use its network to make false claims against him (plaintiff).
In his statement of claim, the plaintiff said that Mr Akpaloo, the first defendant, in an interview on GHOne on November 19, 2024, as part of his presidential campaign, had claimed that the reason Mr Tsikata said in an interview that things were better in the country under President Mahama than currently was because "he was getting contracts under Mahama" and "he was getting the best deals." The plaintiff indicated that Mr Akpaloo further stated and or implied that "those who were getting the goodies" would be the ones saying what Mr Tsikata had said about President Mahama.
It is the plaintiff's case that the said interview was broadcast on GHOne and was accessible on the social media handles of GHOne TV and, thereby, available globally on the World Wide Web (internet).
