Retract and apologise in 7 days - Deputy Chief of Staff, Asenso-Boakye warns A Plus

Lawyers of Deputy Chief of Staff, Francis Asenso-Boakye, has served a notice to controversial musician and New Patriotic Party (NPP) sympathizer, Kwame Asare-Obeng, popularly known as Kwame A Plus to apologize to their client within seven days.

According to a notice issued and signed by Samson Lardy Anyenini of A-Partners@Law, Solicitors of Mr. Asenso-Boakye, A Plus has been given seven days within which he has to withdraw malicious publications he authored against their client or face the law.

The notice read; "Your written retraction and apology, which must be delivered within 7 days from the date first above, must be given the same publicity and prominence as the defamatory claims and must be unequivocal, unconditional and subject to the prior approval of our client and his Solicitors.

"We have firm instructions to, without further notice to you and upon your failure, neglect or refusal to fully satisfy our client’s demands herein, take out a suit and hold you, and such as are carelessly and maliciously repeating the false claims, liable.

Read the full notice below;

KWAME ASARE OBENG alias A PLUS

Dear Sir,

DEMAND NOTICE – RETRACT & APOLOGISE FOR DEFAMATORY

CLAIMS AGAINST FRANCIS ASENSO-BOAKYE – DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF

We hold the instructions of the DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF, FRANCIS ASENSO-BOAKYE, to demand and hereby demand a retraction of and an apology for your series of allegations of corruption against our client.

Our client notes as follows:

i.        That you have with malice aforethought waged a sustained crusade with intent to damage and falsely damaging our client’s reputation using social media in particular;

ii.        That you have with impunity disregarded outcomes of lawful, constitutional official and quasi judicial processes  that discredited your allegations and gave our client a clean bill of health in respect of same through due process;

iii.        That said processes referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) above remain unchallenged by you or anyone else as there is no appeal in respect of same;

iv.        That you have recently resumed the complained conduct after Police commenced investigations into alleged criminal conduct against President of the Ghana Football Association;

v.        That you have since authored and circulated a series of statements and referred to our client as being “corrupt” among other defamatory claims directly and by innuendo obvious to your audience;

vi.        And that said falsehood maliciously publicized attracted and continue to attract similar damaging comments from your audiences and as far as those defamatory statements have been circulated and republished.

Our client takes a serious view of said statements including one dated 23rd May 2018 same being completely false.

Your written retraction and apology, which must be delivered within 7 days from the date first above, must be given the same publicity and prominence as the defamatory claims and must be unequivocal, unconditional and subject to the prior approval of our client and his Solicitors.

We have firm instructions to, without further notice to you and upon your failure, neglect or refusal to fully satisfy our client’s demands herein, take out a suit and hold you, and such as are carelessly and maliciously repeating the false claims, liable.

Be advised accordingly.

SAMSON LARDY ANYENINI, ESQ.

A-PARTNERS@LAW

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• DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF- FRANCIS ASENSO-BOAKYE