The Accra High Court has dismissed investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ 25 million defamation suit against Kennedy Ohene Agyapong.
The judge, Justice Eric Baah, ruled that Anas Aremeyaw failed to establish that Ken Agyapong defamed him by airing the documentary “Who watches the watchman,” but rather that the documentary exposed shady deals in which Anas and his associates were involved.
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This followed Anas’s 2018 lawsuit against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for allegedly defaming him.
Anas asked the court to award him GHC25 million as compensation for the defamatory material published against him by the MP.
The court determined that Anas is engaged in investigative terrorism rather than investigative journalism.
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The court concluded that what Anas is engaged in is not investigative journalism but rather investigative terrorism and that Agyapong was justified to call Anas “a blackmailer, corrupt, an extortionist, and evil”.
“I find the plaintiff’s [Anas Aremeyaw Anas’] claims to be meritless, and they are hereby dismissed.” Justice Baah made the decision.
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