KWADWO ANNING vs. KWASI DARKWA [2016]DLCA5212

Date	2016-06-08
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO: H1/12/2015
Citation No.	[2016]DLCA5212

DENNIS DOMINIC ADJEI J.A. (PRESIDING)

CECILIA H. SOWAH J.A.

L. L. MENSAH J.A.

AMOAKO ADJEI FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT.

AUGUSTINE ATTAFUAH FOR DEFENDANT/APPELLANT.

[2016]DLCA5212
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KWADWO ANNING <o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>KWASI DARKWA <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, CAPE COAST]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL
APPEAL NO: H1/12/2015&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 8TH JUNE, 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>AMOAKO ADJEI FOR
PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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AUGUSTINE
ATTAFUAH FOR DEFENDANT/APPELLANT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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DENNIS
DOMINIC ADJEI J.A. (PRESIDING), CECILIA H. SOWAH J.A., L. L. MENSAH J.A.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>L.
L. MENSAH, J.A.<o:p></o:p>On the 24th day of June
2014, the Circuit Court, Asamankese entered judgment in favour of the
Plaintiff/Respondent (hereinafter referred to as the Plaintiff) against the
Defendant/Appellant (hereinafter referred to as the Defendant).&nbsp; This was after the Plaintiff sued the Defendant
in the court below for defamation.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The facts of this case which are very
simple go like this:&nbsp; On the 17th
day of July, 2013 Opanin Kwaku Abrokwah who hailed from Apremang, and the uncle
of Plaintiff and father of Defendant, went to farm and he did not return.&nbsp; Search parties despatched to search for the
Defendant’s father proved futile.&nbsp; Chiefs
and the Police were informed of the disappearance of Opanin Kwaku Abrokwah.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>After a fruitless search, it was
suggested to the Plaintiff by a friend to consult a fetish priest who
recommended the pouring of libation in the house of the missing person so that
the body could manifest itself.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Ten days after the frantic search, a
body was found in a diamond pit at Apremang and same was identified as that of
Opanin Kwaku Abrokwah.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The incident which generated the action
at the court below and which begot the instant appeal happened on the one week
celebration of the deceased.&nbsp; And it was
that the Defendant grabbed the microphone being used for the occasion and
pronounced that it was the Plaintiff who had killed the deceased Opanin Kwaku
Abrokwah.<o:p></o:p>And that now that it had been revealed
that those who were responsible for the death of his father had been found out
people should go about their duties normally.&nbsp;
The Plaintiff said the public declaration that he killed his uncle
Opanin Kwaku Abrokwah made people to inter, alia shun him.&nbsp; His business suffered.&nbsp; He therefore instituted action against the
Defendant at the court below and claimed the following reliefs from the
Defendant:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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