Lawyers of GhanaWeb, Zoe, Akye & Co, have rejected an assertion by former Director-General of Ghana's National Signals Bureau, Kwabena Adu-Boahene, and his wife, Angel Adjei Boateng, that a publication on a car rental company linked to them was "vile and defamatory".
In response to a letter from the lawyers of the couple which demanded a retraction and apology from GhanaWeb for an article titled, "Adu-Boahene's Enterprise Dreams Limited sold stolen cars from North America - EOCO", Zoe, Akye & Co indicated that there was nothing "vile and defamatory" about the publication.
They indicated that the Adu Boahenes, in the letter written by their lawyers to GhanaWeb, blatantly ignored the fact that the story was based on a witness statement by an investigator of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Frank Marshall Cromwell, and presented in the High Court hearing a case involving the couple. "We wish to state categorically that the said publication by our Client is not vile and does not in any way defame your Clients, Kwabena Adu-Boahene and Angela Agyei Boateng. "It is a publicly known fact that your Clients are currently the subjects of criminal proceedings, which you have on several occasions spoken to the media about.
It is also an undisputed fact that Mr Frank Marshall Cromwell, an EOCO investigator, has filed a witness statement in that matter.
