EJURA vs. LIMAN AND OTHERS

JUDGMENT OF ANNAN J. The claim of the plaintiff, “is for ¢100,000.00 damages against the defendants jointly and severally for libel contained in a letter dated 21 June 1965 written and signed by the defendants and each of them and addressed and sent to the Regional Commissioner (Northern Region) Tamale,” and other named persons. In his statement of claim the plaintiff set out the letter he relied on as a schedule. The letter was set out in full and it runs to six paragraphs. The letter is stated to be about “Malam Ejura’s behaviour towards Moslems in Northern Ghana” and its opening sentence reads as follows: “We would like to point out to you that the peace which had existed among Moslems in Tamale in particular and in both the Northern and Upper Regions of Ghana has been badly damaged by the imposition of Malam Ejura as Chairman of the Northern and Upper Regions Muslim Council against our consent.” The writers of the letter then went on to give reasons for this o...