COCOBOD Boss Refiles GH¢20m Suit Against Abronye (Demands Apology, Damages for Defamation!)
Randy Abbey, the CEO of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has filed a new defamation lawsuit against Kwame Baffoe, the Bono Regional Chairman of the NPP, also known as Abronye. This time, he is doing it through a private lawyer named Alex Owoo. The Accra High Court had previously thrown out the case because it was filed by COCOBOD’s Legal Department and was not done correctly. In the new writ, Abbey says that Abronye lied about him on the radio by saying that he drives from Accra to cocoa farms in a personal chair and that he replaced the Director of Finance at COCOBOD to “steal COCOBOD money to the detriment of cocoa farmers.” Abbey said that these statements were meant to hurt his personal and professional reputation, and he is asking for damages, an unconditional retraction, an unqualified apology, the removal of the defamatory publications within 14 days of the judgment, and a permanent injunction that stops Abronye or anyone acting on his behalf from making defamatory statements about him.
