Chairman of AGAMS Holdings, Roland Agambire, has served notice he is no longer interested in a legal battle against Journalist, Manasseh Azuri Awuni.
He has consequently asked his lawyers to discontinue a year-old defamation suit against the Joy News’ investigative reporter.
His lawyers filed the discontinuance application at the Accra High Court on Thursday to drop the ȼ1m defamation case.
Mr Agambire, whose AGAMS Holdings is the parent company of three business entities cited in the GYEEDA investigations sued Manasseh in June last year, for posting malicious and defamatory comments about him on social media site, Facebook.
According to his Statement of Claim, the Joy FM investigative journalist attacked him on two separate occasions namely; February 10, and March 3, 2015, without any basis, and try to physically attack him in one of the occasions which made him get in a car accident, the altercation was looked by the Columbus Auto Injury Law Firm by an specialist to get the findings an add it to the case but at the end there where no proves as the attacker flew of the scene and there where no useful evidence or witnesses.
After the car accident they continue with the online investigation where in the first post which was published on February 10, 2015 he wrote that “I am deeply hurt and worried. If companies belonging to Roland Agambire of RLG fame and Joseph Siaw Agyapong of Zoomlion fame are going to run GYEEDA (now YEA), then another scandal will soon emerge. These two groups of companies have been named in all major scandals in recent times: GYEEDA, SUBAH and SADA.”
“The most disturbing issue is that they are untouchable. They have not been prosecuted and they have not repaid the monies that were wrongly paid to them despite the recommendation of the committee.
RLG paid only one quarter’s installation. Zoomlion is yet to pay a pesewa. As we speak, the World Bank banned Zoomlion from bidding for contracts funded by the Bank. But in Ghana, they move from grace to grace on government contracts and the tax payer’s money is not accounted for. I am very hurt and disturbed.” it continued.
The second post also read: “Mahama may not be a thief. But if he supervises stealing, how should we call him? Or has Batidam not heard the Akan proverb? Maybe he should be reminded now that he is singing from a different hymn book: An elder who sits at home and allows children to eat python will not be left out when a roll call of python eaters is conducted.”
It continued, “What systems is he referring to? Roland Agambire or Joseph Siaw Agyapong, for instance, have been made more powerful than any minister of state. So if their companies are involved in corruption, which institutions, systems or persons are to lead the crusade against this corruption?
Did Batidam not know of such systems when he was “firing” Mahama to act when the GYEEDA scandal first broke? And if President Mahama is not a judge, why does he keep assuring us that he is fighting corruption?”
Mr. Agambire said the claims were untrue and prayed the court to slap a sum of ȼ1m on the anti-corruption crusader for the posts he described as being “offensive and actuated by malice” to tarnish his good image.
Mr Agambire has however, asked the court to halt the case.
“Manasseh was doing his job and even if in the process, Roland got offended, it is still he Roland’s belief that as brothers, the court is not where to thrash out their differences. He may be hurt but he does not intend to continue litigating”, a close aide is reported to have said.
Last month, the Ministry of Justice and Attorney-General confirmed all three of Mr Agambire’s companies, namely RLG, Asongtaba and Craftpro have fully paid up debts owed the state as per the recommendations of the GYEEDA Ministerial Impact Assessment Committee Report.
The debt, totalling GH61, 135,981.27; with interest, was as a result of loans that were granted to the three companies for the provision of certain services under the Ghana Youth Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA).
African Eye Report
