Tafo MP Threatens to Sue Deputy CEO of Petroleum Hub, Others
The Member of Parliament for Tafo Constituency, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, has threatened legal action against the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Petroleum Hub, Onasis Kobby, and three others.
The lawmaker is demanding a public apology and retraction over social media posts they made, which suggested he fathered a child with a married woman, the wife of the late Samuel Aboagye who was the Deputy NADMO Director, who died in a helicopter crash in August.
The posts, lawyers of Vicent said, seek to tarnish his hard-earned reputation through false narratives intended to court public disaffection against him.
“We hasten to observe that, apart from your publication, which is clearly malicious, having been made without regard to truth and decency, it was also made without regard to the sensitivities and respectability that ought to be accorded the family of the deceased, who are undoubtedly going through turbulent times.”
In a letter to the four, the lawyers said their client only got to know Samuel and his wife through the national broadcast of the accident.
“My client states categorically that he has never personally encountered the said woman.”
They have been given a 12-hour ultimatum to retract the defamatory statements and render an unqualified apology to him on the same platform and with equal prominence as employed in the publication of the first statements, which are deemed “defamatory”.
“Failing the above, I hold my client’s unequivocal instructions to commence legal proceedings against you for your reckless publication of defamatory statements against him.”
Social media has been active in a hunt for one Kumasi-based MP who allegedly fathered the daughter of Samuel.
This followed revelations of suspicion of infidelity on the part of the woman by the family of Samuel.
Story by Hajara Fuseini
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