Kan Dapaah Runs To Court After Barker Vormawor Bribery Claim

Ghana’s National Security Minister, Kan Dapaah has sued Convenor of the Democracy Hub and FixtheCountry Movement, Oliver Barker Vormawor for allegations of inducement the latter made against the former last week.

The Minister is seeking ten million cedis in damages and seeking a retraction and apology to that effect.

He also wants the court to declare the allegations levelled against him by the activist “defamatory” and issue an injunction to restrain the respondent from repeating similar statements against him.

Barker on the second day of the Occupy Jubilee House protest in Accra told the media some government officials including the National Security Minister and the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta tried to induce him and other colleagues to forsake their activism.

According to him, they were promised money and appointments by the government and were threatened with arrest when they rejected the offers.

“Unknown to the government, we have recordings, while I was in the UK, the National Security Minister [Kan Dapaah], called and invited me for a sit-down. The government offered to pay for my flight, in order to meet here in Ghana. This was something that was never disclosed to the public, but we met at a safe house, for us to stop our activism, this was way before we started the first #FixTheCountry demonstration. We were offered not only money but appointments, and if we agreed to stop this, we were going to be free, but the most important thing was not to bring citizens onto the streets.”

“When we rejected that, Kan Dapaah, the National Security Minister, said to my face that if we decide to continue on this course of action, we will be arrested. We will be dealt with and, it will be over his dead body any demonstrations will happen. At the time we were even in Supreme Court at the time,” he told the press on Friday, September 22, 2023.