Legal counsel for the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene, has issued a 7-day ultimatum to GhanaWeb, Ghana's leading news online portal, for perusing a witness statement against his client.
Lawyer Atta Akyea, in a strong-worded rejoinder to a GhanaWeb publication under the headline "Adu-Boahene's Enterprise Dreams Limited sold stolen cars from North America - EOCO" is demanding retraction and an unqualified apology from the media organization for playing its role of disseminating information to public.
The publication which was an extract from a witness statement by an investigator of the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), Frank Marshall Cromwell, and presented in the High Court hearing Adu-Boahene's case found the companies of Adu-Boahene and his wife to be involved in car theft.
Frank Marshall Cromwell said, in the witness statement, that "A4 is the shareholder of a number of companies all of which are directed, operated or controlled by A1, A2 and A3.