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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 87594, member: 27"]
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
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[*]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.
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What Kan Dapaah was actually suing over
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[*]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.
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