GCNET to be exposed in court

The Daily Post and its editor as well as two allied newspapers, the Ghanaian Lens and the Crystal Clear Lens are girding their loins for a showdown soon with GCNet in an Accra High Court.

GCNet dragged the three newspapers and their editors to the High Court on November 19, 2010 claiming some publications of the three newspapers have damaged or are likely to damage their goodwill and reputation both domestically and internationally.

GCNet also “...avers that the said publications have also discredited or are likely to discredit the services” they provide “...and as such has adversely affected or is likely to adversely affect” them “both domestically and internationally”

Furthermore, GCNet claims that the publications “...are false, and are likely to and indeed discredit their business activities and services and have damaged or are likely to damage the plaintiff’s goodwill and reputation both domestically and internationally”

The company is therefore seeking a perpetual injunction restraining the three newspapers from publishing any injurious and or false publication about them and its business affairs and or its officers that damage or are likely to cause damage to their reputation, goodwill and or is likely to cause discredit to them.

GCNet is also seeking punitive measures against the newspaper and their editors for discrediting their services and good.

The editors of the Daily Post, Ghanaian Lens and the Crystal Clear Lens, however, are standing by their publications that GCNet’s operations has led to the loss of billion of cedis to the state; that they lied to the President of Ghana that they had a software that could do evaluation of import duties to be paid by importers and that some senior management personnel of the company were involved in the breaking into the CMS server and changing figures in it and subsequently duping the nation off billions of Ghana cedis.

The Daily Post says it will call to the witness stand two ‘good Samaritans’ who GCNet fell on to plead with it to drop the stories for a fee. It will also tender in documentary evidence of a meeting that transpired between a senior management member of GCNet, the editor of the Daily Post and his deputies as well as the two ‘good Samaritans” at Alisa hotel in Accra. The meeting was convened by the two ‘good Samaritans’ at the request of the GCNet official. The agenda at the meeting was to plead with the Daily Post to quit publishing the stories. At the meeting, the GCNet official made many revealing confessions.

The three newspapers and their editors have engaged the services of Mr.David Anann, a legal practitioner to represent them in court.

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