The Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Gold Board, Sammy Gyamfi, has sued Ghanaian TV personality, Valentina Nana Agyeiwaa, popularly called Afia Schwarzenegger, to the tune of GH¢10,000,000 for defamatory comments she made about him.
According to court documents sighted by The NewsCenta, Afia Schwarzenegger is alleged to have said on her TikTok page with the handle ‘Queen Afia Kande Schwar @queen schwar,’ which as a following of over 526, 500 followers, that she had information that Sammy Gyamfi has been buying cars for girls in the University of Ghana.
Speaking in Twi, she said, “…Tell Sammy Gyamfi’s wife that I am greeting her. Her husband is still buying cars for girls in Legon. I am holding the list. What will make you know that I am holding the list is that I am going to call my informant…I am calling my informant. Akumaa be wild, be wild. That Sammy Gyamfi’s girl, I have forgotten her name. Send it to me again, yes and add all the list. Yes, send it to me. Send everything. I am waiting. So, tell Sammy Gyamfi’s wife that her husband is doing a lot of work at Legon; he is really working there. But truly, what will his wife even say. Just a few days ago, his wife’s sister Vida, came to buy a house in the US. Yes, even his wife’s younger sister has bought a house in the US…”
Sammy Gyamfi, however, insists that he has no girlfriend(s) at the University and has at no point purchased any vehicle for said girlfriend(s).
He also denies the claim that he has purchased a house in the United States for his wife’s sister, and even denies the existence of any “Vida” who is the sister of his wife.
Given this, he is suing her for defamation of character.
Sammy Gyamfi is also asking the court to place a perpetual injunction restraining Afia from making any further defamatory publications concerning him.
He is also asking the court to order her to make a retraction and render an unqualified apology to be published on the front and back pages of The Daily Graphic Newspaper on three (3) consecutive occasions.
This should also be published on TikTok in addition to any and all other media platforms on which the impugned publication was made, and given the same prominence as the statements in contention.
He is also asking for exemplary damages of GH¢10,000,000 against the Defendant, as well as costs inclusive of Counsel’s fees and any further orders as the Court may deem fit.
