Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, the Member of Parliament for Assin Central has asked the Accra High Court to strike out the defamation suit investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas filed against him.
In a motion filed on July 17, 2018, Mr Agyapong prayed the court the strike out the writ of summons and statement of claim by Anas and consequently the entire suit because, “in the light of all the circumstances of this case and in view of the fact that the Plaintiff who has clearly tainted his hands with indelible dirt including the obstruction of justice cannot without purging himself seek reliefs from the Honourable Court when in fact I was only exercising my Constitutional right to expose his unconstitutional schemes by which he violates the rights of victims and expose them to an unfarir and illegal ridicule on the bases of his contrived mantra, Name, Shame and Jail.”
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Source: Graphic.com.gh