High Court orders Oliver Barker-Vormawor to pay GH¢5 million

A GH¢5 million defamation verdict just landed hard on a prominent Ghanaian activist, and the court didn't leave much wiggle room.

High Court drops big damages on Barker-Vormawor

• Oliver Barker-Vormawor got hit with a GH¢5 million general damages ruling in Accra.
• Justice Joseph Owusu Adu-Agyeman also slapped an additional GH¢100,000 in legal costs on him.
• Albert Kan Dapaah originally chased GH¢10 million, but the court trimmed the compensation by half.
• Barker-Vormawor's legal team tried to relist their struck-out defence, and the court shut that down fast.

What Kan Dapaah was actually suing over

• Albert Kan Dapaah, former National Security Minister, sued over a public claim that he solicited a $1 million bribe.
• Barker-Vormawor, a prominent FixTheCountry Movement figure, allegedly suggested that National Security officials offered him cash to drop his activism.
• Kan Dapaah called the allegation completely false and pushed for a public apology, retraction, and a perpetual injunction.
• The court granted nearly all of his requested reliefs in the final high-profile ruling.