GHANA GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION AND ITS CHIEF COMMISSIONER vs. THE VANGUARD NEWSPAPER [2015]DLNMC4598

GHANA GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION AND ITS CHIEF COMMISSIONER vs. THE VANGUARD NEWSPA... [2015]DLNMC4598

Date	2015-06-18
Suit No.
Citation No.	[2015]DLNMC4598

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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#00B050">GHANA GIRL GUIDES
ASSOCIATION AND ITS CHIEF COMMISSIONER<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#00B050">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#00B050">THE VANGUARD NEWSPAPER<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span class="None"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">[NATIONAL
MEDIA COMMISSION]</span></b></span><span class="None"><b><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">DECISION
GIVEN BY: <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;border:none;
mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">AMBASSADOR
KABRAL BLAY-AMIHERE (CHAIRMAN NMC)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">On
the s" May, 2015 The Girl Guides Association and its Chief Commissioner,
acting through their lawyers, filed a complaint against The Vanguard in its 005
edition published on 28th April - 4th May, 2015, with the title "Visa scam
hits Girls Guides Association" with a picture and name of the Chief
Commissioner. The complainants stated that the article in question libeled them
with false and malicious statements. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">At
the Settlement Committee meeting, the editor of The Vanguard newspaper Mr.
Osbert Lartey, was given every opportunity to prove his allegations but could
not substantiate the allegations in the publication, namely "visa
racketeering and multiple acts of corruption". <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">The
Committee found that the story had no substance whatsoever and was not backed
by any admissible proof. Neither did the publication meet any benchmark of
professionalism. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">The
Committee therefore directs the Editor, Mr. Osbert Lartey, of The Vanguard
newspaper to: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Publish
a correction and apology with equal prominence as was with the offending
article in three consecutive issues of The Vanguard newspaper with immediate
effect from its next issue. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p>

</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p></span></main>