Kwesi Pratt Jnr, a Veteran journalist and Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, has described Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin’s defamation writ against GoldBod Chief Executive Officer Sammy Gyamfi and two media organisations as “very strange”.
According to Kwesi Pratt, if the court rules against Alexander Afenyo-Markin in his defamation suit, his reputation is finished.
Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana programme on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, Kwesi Pratt stated, “You’ve taken somebody to court for defamation who you claim was defending your image and saying that the allegations against you have not been proven. Master, I don’t understand. It’s difficult.
“But I think I’d better stop here before I get into trouble. I don’t want to get into trouble. So I will stop here. But it’s very strange. Very strange writ,” he stated.
Kwesi Pratt further added, “So what I’ll say at this moment is that the move initiated by the Minority Leader can cut both ways. If the courts hold that he has been defamed and take measures to repair the damage done to him, maybe it will be positive.
“On the other hand, if the court does not rule for him, he’s finished. He’s destroyed forever. And he may not even be in a position to continue functioning as Minority Leader. His credibility would have been shattered completely,” Pratt stated.
The veteran journalist added that Afenyo-Markin, himself a lawyer, was fully aware of the risks when he initiated the action, saying, “But be that as it may, he knew the risk he was taking when he went to court. You know, and he’s a lawyer. I’m not the one to tell him whether he should have taken that risk or not.
“I note, on the other hand, that his accuser is very firm and confident. I’ve heard him in several discussions, and he says, ‘I dare him to go to court.’ What does he have that you don’t know and I don’t even want to know? It’s for the court to know,” he added.
“I’ve read the petition before the courts… And there’s something which is most instructive. The Minority Leader goes to court and says, ‘I’m not just suing Sammy Gyamfi. I’m also suing Joy and Peace FM.’
“And then, in his own writ, he says that the Joy presenter actually challenged Sammy and disassociated the station from the statement that Sammy Gyamfi was making,” Pratt asserted.
“So why sue Joy? What is the trick? I don’t know. It’s maybe my illiteracy in law, which is killing me. But I can’t understand.”
Meanwhile, more details have emerged on the Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, lawsuit against the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), Sammy Gyamfi, the Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), Eric Adjei, Multimedia Group and Peace FM.
Afenyo-Markin, in a separate lawsuit, sued Sammy Gyamfi and Multimedia Group at the Accra High Court.
The Minority leader also sued Eric Adjei and Peace FM at the Achimota Circuit Court.
Speaking when Parliament reconvened on Monday, August 24, 2026, the Minority leader revealed he has initiated legal proceedings against Mr Gyamfi and media organisations that published or broadcast the statements in question.
Afenyo-Markin stated, “I have accordingly caused writs to be filed in Suit Number GT/1029/2026, titled Osahen Alexander Afenyo-Markin versus Samuel Adu Gyamfi and Multimedia Group Limited at the Accra High Court, and Suit Number GR/ACH/CC/C5/02/2026, titled Osahen Alexander Afenyo-Markin versus Eric Adjei and Peace FM at the Achimota Circuit Court”.
“I have every confidence that in the fullness of time the court will make the appropriate determination,” he added.
The legal action follows weeks of public exchanges between the Minority Leader and the GoldBod CEO over the financial performance of the DGPP, while Afenyo-Markin had appeared to have softened his earlier threat to pursue legal action over allegations made by Sammy Gyamfi.
The court cited details that the reliefs being sought by Afenyo-Markin including a retraction of the alleged defamatory statements.
“The reliefs are listed below:
a. General damages for libel;
b. Aggravated damages;
c. Exemplary damages;
d. An order directing the defendants to publish a full, unconditional and unequivocal retraction of the defamatory statements;
e. An order directing the defendants to publish a full, unconditional and unequivocal public apology to the plaintiff; and
f. An order directing that the retraction and apology be published and/or broadcast with substantially the same prominence and reach as the original publication.
g. An order directing the Defendants to cause the retraction and apology to be broadcast on JoyNews and published on the relevant electronic and social media platforms through which the defamatory publication was disseminated
h. An order of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendants, their servants, agents, assigns and/or any persons acting under their authority from further publishing the defamatory words or any words to the same or substantially similar effect concerning the Plaintiff
i. Costs of Fifteen million Ghana cedis (GH¢15,000,000.00) as compensation thereof
j. Costs, including legal costs; and
k. Any further or other reliefs as this Honourable Court may deem fit”.
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