Lawyer sues Bono Regional Chairman for New Patriotic Party

Private legal practitioner and award-winning journalist, Samson Lardy Anyenini, has sued the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe alias Abronye, for defamation.

The lawsuit was filed at the Kumasi High Court

Abronye, on April 7 this year, during a programme broadcast on Wontumi radio and television, reportedly described Mr Anyenini as a “corrupt person and liar”, alleging that the renowned lawyer and media personality had been bribed to embarrass the Member of Parliament for Assin South, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, while hosting the popular programme NewsFile.

Mr Anyenini, in the lawsuit, rejected the assertions by Abronye, describing them as falsehoods “calculated to cause maximum damage to his hard-earned reputation and professional standing.”

Also joined to the suit as defendants are Wontumi Multimedia Company and Kweku Kyeremanteng Nkansah, host of the programme where Abronye made the said defamatory comments.

The plaintiff has also sued Superweb Technologies, publishers of online news portal, Ghanaweb, at the Accra High Court for publishing the comments of Abronye.

Reliefs

Mr Anyenini is seeking general and punitive damages totalling GH¢20 million against Abronye, Wontumi Multimedia and Nkansah, while he is also seeking total general and punitive damages of GH¢10 million against Superweb Technologies, publisher of Ghanaweb.

He is also asking the court to declare the publication defamatory and one that has injured his hard-earned reputation.

Again, he is seeking an order from the court directed at the defendants for an “unconditional retraction, unqualified apology and complete removal from the Internet of the said defamatory broadcast, doing so on all of the defendants’ platforms including their social media platforms, and in the Daily Graphic newspaper”.

Statement of claim

In his statement of claim, the plaintiff stated that Abronye, as a guest of the Ghana Talk Show  which is broadcasted on all platforms of Wontumi Multimedia, made the defamatory comments which were complete falsehoods, without any basis and actuated by malice.

“The defamatory statements were uttered with malice afterthoughts with 2nd defendant (Nkansah) actively contributing and encouraging 3rd defendant (Abronye) to continue in the conduct while occasionally play-acting to urge restraint, either sincerely disclaiming nor requiring retraction and apology as expected by the standard ethics in the exercise of professional journalism.”

With regard to Ghanaweb, the plaintiff averred that it “recklessly culled a publication from the said defamatory statements and published same on April 8, 2025.”