Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor is the South Dayi MP and Majority Chief Whip
The Member of Parliament for South Dayi and Majority Chief Whip, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has taken legal action against the MP for Assin South, Rev John Ntim Fordjour, over what he describes as defamatory statements made against his character.
In light of this, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor is seeking several reliefs from Rev Ntim Fordjour, including GH¢30,000,000.00 in damages.
He is also requesting an interlocutory injunction to restrain Rev Ntim Fordjour and his associates from further publishing the alleged defamatory statements, pending the final determination of the case, among other reliefs.
Below are the reliefs being sought:
a. A declaration that the statement made by the defendant against the plaintiff in paragraph 7 in this statement of claim and published on “X”, is false, malicious, and defamatory of the plaintiff.
b. An order of interlocutory injunction, restraining the defendant, his assigns, privies, agents, and workmen, and all persons claiming through the defendant from publishing the statements made by the defendant in relation to the plaintiff pending the final determination of the suit.
c. An order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendant from making or in any other way, causing to be published any further defamatory statements about the plaintiff.
d. An order directed at the defendant to retract the said defamatory statement made about the plaintiff and posted online.
e. An order directed at the defendant to publish an apology to the plaintiff in the following manner;
i. By making one publication in a national daily newspaper
ii. By posting on the “X” with the same prominence the defamatory words received within seven (7) days of the judgment being delivered by the court.
f. General damages in the sum of the reputational value of the plaintiff as stated in paragraph 5 above, against the defendant in favour of the plaintiff for the defamatory statement posted by the defendant online. Paragraph of the suit indicates that the plaintiff’s reputational value as a result of his professional and public service is worth in excess of Thirty million Ghana cedis (GH¢30,000,000.00) at present.
g. Aggravated damages against the defendant for subjecting the plaintiff to humiliating and malicious circumstances through his defamatory statement against the plaintiff posted online.
h. Punitive damages against the Defendant in favour of the plaintiff as punishment for the defamatory statement posted online.
i. Compensatory damages against the defendant in favour of the plaintiff for the defamatory statement posted online by the defendant.
j. Legal costs.
k. Any other orders that this honorable court deems fit to make.
Background
The legal action follows a post made by Rev Ntim Fordjour on May 8, 2025, via X, in which he alleged that Dafeamekpor acted as Vice Chairman of the Committee on Subsidiary Legislation during a period when embattled former National Signals Bureau (NSB) boss, Kwabena Adu Boahene, allegedly paid GH¢360,000 to the committee to help facilitate the passage of a Legislative Instrument (L.I.).
Kwabena Adu Boahene, in his defence against claims that he fraudulently misappropriated GH¢49.1 million, explained that allowances of GH¢960,000 and GH¢309,000 were paid to MPs on the Defence and Interior Committee and the Subsidiary Legislation Committee, respectively, during the passage of the NSB Act and its accompanying Legislative Instrument.
In response to the accusations that he embezzled GH¢49.1 million, Kwabena Adu Boahene clarified that during the enactment of the NSB Act and its corresponding Legislative Instrument, MPs on the Defense and Interior Committee and the Subsidiary Legislation Committee received allowances of GH¢960,000 and GH¢309,000, respectively.
Rev Fordjour demanded in the same post that Dafeamekpor and others be the subject of a thorough investigation, saying that the NDC and all others involved in the alleged embezzlement would be held responsible once the investigation got underway.
Dafeamekpor responded by filing a statement of claim in which he unequivocally denied the accusations and called the post “malicious, defamatory, and false.”
MAG/VPO
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