Akufo-Addo’s Secretary Demands Odike Retracts Galamsey Involvement Allegation

Secretary to President Akufo-Addo, Nana Asante Bediatuo has threatened to sue the founder of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai Odike.

This comes after Odike alleged in a media interview that Asante Bediatuo “has brought people to Bosomefreho to engage in galamsey”.

In a letter to the 2020 presidential candidate of UPP, lawyers for Asante Bediatuo demanded that he retract the statement and apologise.

“We are instructed to inform you that the said publication that you put out in the public domain is absolutely false. It is instructive to point it out to you that you ought to have taken steps to verify the authenticity of the information before publishing the same in the public domain”.

Asante Bediatuo finds Odike’s failure to verify the news as “deliberate and carefully calculated to malign, cause public dissatisfaction, injure and reduce” his reputation in public eyes.

The lawyers have therefore given Odike a week ultimatum to retract the “defamatory and malicious” statement or else get set for legal action.

Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini