Court docket grants Shatta Wale’s request to settle Bulldog’s defamation go well with out of courtroom

Bulldog who’s the plaintiff is looking for damages for the alleged defamation and identical for malicious publication of falsehood towards him by the defendant.

In courtroom on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, attorneys of the plaintiff, led by Dr Justice Srem-Sai, advised the courtroom that the events have began negotiations for settlement and would want a month’s adjournment.

Justice Joseph Adu Agyemang Owusu, presiding over the Basic Jurisdiction 13 of the Accra Excessive Court docket, after listening to the events, inspired them to settle the matter out of courtroom.

On 2 November 2022, Shatta Wale made a publication on his Fb web page implicating his former supervisor, Bullgod, within the homicide of aritiste supervisor Fennec Okyere, amongst others.

Fennec Okyere was the supervisor of Kwaw Kese.

He was murdered at his Manet Gardens residence on the Spintex Highway, Accra, on Thursday, March 13, 2014, by unknown assailants.

The plaintiff is looking for the next reliefs

A declaration of the Court docket that the sequence of publications made by the defendant as particularised within the Assertion of Declare are defamatory to the plaintiff.

A declaration of the courtroom that the sequence of publications made by the defendant within the Assertion of Declare are malicious.

An order of the Court docket directed on the defendant to on all his social media pages or accounts, make a publication on seven (7) consecutive days of an unqualified retraction of and unreserved apology for the defamatory phrases that the Defendant has printed in regards to the Plaintiff, such retraction and apology to be vetted and authorised by the Plaintiff’s attorneys.

An order of the Court docket for perpetual injunction restraining the defendant, his brokers, workmen, assigns and servants from publishing or additional publishing any defamatory phrases towards the Plaintiff.

Basic damages for defamation.

Particular damages for defamation.

Punitive damages for malicious publication of falsehood towards the Plaintiff.

Value, and some other orders or treatments that the Court docket might deem match.