Veteran journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baak is beside himself with anger following Wednesday’s High Court ruling on a defamatory suit ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas brought against lawmaker Kennedy Ohene Agyapong.
In dismissing the 25 million cedis suit, Justice Eric Baah judgment was replete with strong-worded words, describing the multiple award winning journalist as a criminal, corrupt, extortionist, cheat, blackmailer and self-confessed criminal.
The Tiger Eye PI, the investigative outfit founded by Anas, issued a statement Wednesday evening dismissing the High Court’s ruling, asserting that it is a “travesty of justice”.
The 65-page judgment has brought sharply divided opinions as many weigh the ruling.
Wading into the discussion, the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Mr. Kweku Baako minced no words as he posited that Justice Baah’s ruling was a disaster.
“Last night, I had the time and space to read the full judgment. My assessment is that it is a ‘disaster of a judicial verdict’. Nobody can convince me otherwise!” he shared on Facebook on March 16.
He therefore admonished Anas Aremeyaw, his protégé, to take the matter up at the Appeal’s Court.
The veteran journalist was confident that “Anas shall triumph!”
Here is Mr. Baako’s preliminary assessment of the ruling:
“Last night, I had the time and space to read the full judgment. My assessment is that it is a “disaster of a judicial verdict”. Nobody can convince me otherwise!
“However, as adherents of the Rule of Law, I believe the way forward for Anas Aremeyaw Anas and Tiger Eye, lies upstairs via the Appellate structures.
“There’s a great temptation to engage in heated debates and exchanges on the merits or otherwise of the judgment in the public space.
“My Advice to the “main protagonists” involved in the litigation; especially those on the side of the Plaintiff, is that they must focus more on the judicial space rather the public space.
“’Public space responses’ can and must be “selective” and “focused” on “essentials” , if and when necessary!
“Personally, people who turned deaf ears to the High Court verdict in my favour against the same person, or even sought to downplay it on basis that it could be or was being appealed against, are running riot like “rampaging octopuses” on another High Court verdict in favour of the Defendant against the Plaintiff!
“And these people seek to provoke or engage me in the public space on the contents of the bizarre judgment.
“I have to disappoint them. I shall speak or comment on the issues they raise per my own calculation and discretion.
“Meanwhile, I am told the Defendant has called me a “FAKE JOURNALIST”!
“Some people NEVER learn!
“Pending the outcome of the appeal in my case against that person, the High Court verdict against him underlined who and what a FAKE is and could be! That verdict is INTACT as at now!
“Ah well, SELECTIVE AMNESIA s allowed by our democratic dispensation!
“ANAS SHALL TRIUMPH!
“Mark my words!
