A member of 's legal team, Eric Okyere Darko, has explained why the $18 million award for damages in the investigative journalist, , suit against the former Member of Parliament for Assin Central for defamation, was slashed to $500.00.
Speaking on Metro TV's Good Evening Ghana, on May 14, 2025, Okyere Darko sought to break down the processes that led to the massive slash in the earlier $18 million damages awarded to the former legislator.
He stated that the outcome was based on further processes they pursued to challenge what he termed as an erroneous verdict by the jury in the case. "… On March 15, 2025, the jury went into a deliberation and there was an instruction given to the jury to come up with answers to specific questions.
Those questions on the jury's instructions requested them to consider only nominal damage because the judge made the ruling that Anas did not prove actual damage caused him.
