Former Ghana Football Association (GFA) President Kwesi Nyantakyi has slammed ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas after the latter’s defamation action against Kennedy Agyapong was dismissed.
Anas filed a GH25 million defamation complaint against Kennedy Agyapong, the Member of Parliament for Assin Central in the Central Region, in 2018. Still, the court ruled on Wednesday, March 15, that the suit lacked merit.
In a lengthy judgment, Justice Eric Baah ruled that the plaintiff [Anas Aremeyaw Anas] failed to establish that Kennedy Agyapong defamed the investigative journalist by screening the documentary “Who watches the watchman?”
Mr. Nyantakyi stated on Accra-based Oman FM earlier today that “the High Court’s ruling speaks to the reality that Anas Aremeyaw Anas is not honest, but as indicated by the court, he is a blackmailer and an extortionist.”
“In addition, the judge defined his role as an investigative terrorist rather than an investigative journalist. He has completely degraded himself. He used to depict himself as an angel, but I’m not convinced he’s even at the devil’s level anymore.”
In June 2018, a former member of Fifa’s executive committee was caught accepting $65,000 in cash from an undercover reporter in a video shot by journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas and aired by BBC Africa’s investigative team, Africa Eye.
Nyantakyi was photographed putting “shopping money” into a black plastic bag by an undercover reporter posing as a businessman interested in investing in Ghanaian football.
He later accepted what he thought was a sponsorship contract for the Ghana Football Association, which he had presided over since 2005. The phony arrangement, concocted by the reporters, would have allowed millions of dollars in commission to be paid to a firm he controls.
This cost him his posts as a FIFA Council Member and CAF’s First Vice President.
