The Managing Director of Café Accra, Alexis Boahene and Tennyson Quarshie-Ankrah, have both been sued by businessman Jude Teddy Baffoe for alleged defamatory claims made against him by the two.
Jude Teddy Baffoe, who is the the Managing Director of Bachman and Welser Advisory Services-UK, filed the lawsuit at the Accra High Court against Boahene for allegedly reposting some defamatory claims made by Quarshie-Ankrah on social media.
Baffoe says these disparaging comments have seriously hurt his reputation, which he values at over GH₵10 million.
He has a respectable profession in private equity and the hospitality sector.
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Quarshie-Ankrah and Baffoe were classmates in Haarlem, Holland, when they first met 27 years ago, according to Baffoe’s account.
He claims that in 2012, Quarshie-Ankrah stopped communicating with him because of a number of untrue comments that she had made about him, including claims that he had stolen from Quarshie-Ankrah’s family.
The defamatory posts, according to Baffoe, came from a social network account called “Maame,” and they have seriously damaged his reputation both personally and professionally.
In one of the posts, Quarshie-Ankrah allegedly accused Baffoe of being behind the “Maame” account and making false statements using his real IP address.
Therefore, Baffoe is requesting an order compelling the defendants to retract the defamatory remarks they made about him and the related photograph on social media.
“An order directed at the 1st and 2nd Defendants to apologise and expunge their defamatory comments through the same medium used to defame the Plaintiff in July 2022 with the same prominence as was given to the defamatory actions,” he added.
Furthermore, for the defamatory publications that were put on the defendants’ Snapchat walls in July 2022, Boahene is suing them jointly and severally for GH₵5 million in damages.
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“Aggravated and exemplary damages of One Million Ghana Cedis (GHS 1,000,000) against the Defendants,” he added.
