The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Gold Board (GOLDBOD), Sammy Gyamfi, has sued popular media personality Valentina Nana Agyeiwaa, also known as Afia Schwarzenegger, for allegedly defaming him.
According to court documents sighted by GhanaWeb, Sammy Gyamfi accused Afia Schwarzenegger of defaming him in a publication in the Twi dialect.
The said publication, which was quoted in the document, showed that the media personality accused Sammy Gyamfi of cheating on his wife.
“Tell Sammy Gyamfi‘s wife that I am greeting her. Her husband is still buying cars for girls in Legon. I am holding the list. What will make you know that I am holding the list is that I am going to call my informant… I am calling my informant. Akumaa, be wild, be wild, that Sammy Gyamfi‘s girl, I have forgotten her name, send it to me again, yes, and add all the list. Yes, send it to me. Send everything. I am waiting.
“So, tell Sammy Gyamfi‘s wife that her husband is doing a lot of work at Legon, he is really working there. But truly, what will his wife even say?” Afia is quoted as having said in the court document.
The CEO of the GOLDBOD, who is also the National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), through his lawyer, said the comments made against him are defamatory.
He, therefore, asked the court to declare that Afia’s comment defamed his character.
He also asked the court for GH¢10 million in damages.
Below are his reliefs:
a. A declaration that the defendant’s publication… constitutes defamation of the plaintiff’s character.
b. General damages against the defendant herein for defamation of character.
c. An order of this Honourable Court in the nature of a perpetual injunction restraining the defendant herein from making any further publication and/or causing to be printed, published, distributed, and/or otherwise circulated same and/or other similar defamatory words touching and/or otherwise concerning the plaintiff herein.
d. Exemplary damages of Ten Million Ghana Cedis (GHS 10,000,000.00) against the defendant.
e. A retraction and an unqualified apology by the defendant to be published on the front and back pages of The Daily Graphic newspaper on three (3) consecutive occasions, and same to be published on the TikTok mobile application platform, in addition to any and all other media platforms where the impugned publication was made by the defendant, and given the same prominence as the statements complained of,” the suit read.
