The former Minister for Water Resources and Sanitation, Cecilia Abena Dapaah has instructed Accra based Joy News to retract a reportage on her about her bank account details.
According to lawyers for the former Minister, a report by Joy News that she has millions of dollars in her bank account was inaccurate.
They wrote to the Multimedia Group demanding an unqualified apology for making “false statements” alleging $5 million and GH¢48 million were found in her Prudential Bank accounts.
Lawyers of Madam Dapaah in their letter to the Multimedia Group said the narrative was corrected by a statement from the OSP but despite that, the media house continued with publications on the matter laden with malice.
“Despite this rebuttal, at 7pm of 10th August 2023, your outfit continued to post material alluding to the false statement that $5m and GHS48m had been found in our client’s bank accounts.”
Cecila Dapaah is thus demanding a retraction and apology else she will drag the media house to court.
“We are by this letter demanding that your outfit retracts the false information it has published and apologizes to our client within three (3) days from the delivery of this letter (using the same means and coverage with which it published the false information), failing which we have our client’s firm instructions to institute legal action and bring the full force of the law to bear on your outfit for the damage and injury your reportage has caused and keeps causing,” the letter demanded.
It was reported on August 10 that the OSP discovered a substantial sum of US$590,000 in cash during the search conducted at the Abelemkpe residence of the former Minister.
The report added that an astounding amount of GH¢2.7 million in cash was also discovered at the same address.
The Special Prosecutor subsequently froze seven accounts belonging to the former minister.
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