Multimedia Group, owners of Joy News, have issued a statement in response to the recent demand for a retraction and an apology from former sanitation minister Cecilia Dapaah, over an alleged misreport.
The Group asserted that there was no ethical or professional wrongdoing in their coverage of the issues concerning her frozen bank accounts in the midst of her alleged stolen money worth millions of dollars and cedis from her private residence.
The media station reported about an alleged transaction linked to two of Cecilia Dapaah's bank accounts in the ongoing investigation by the Special Prosecutor (OSP).
Their report disclosed that two of the former minister’s accounts contained a total of US$5 million and 48 million cedis, representing the cumulative value of transactions evaluated by the OSP investigators.
This revelation prompted the former minister to request a retraction and an apology from the news outlet, claiming that the said reportage was false and had no facts.
In response to her demands, the channel through their legal representatives emphasized that the reported figures were grounded in the factual context of the ongoing criminal investigation.
They argued that the said figures accurately represent the transaction values associated with the bank accounts in question and are integral to the OSP's application for a court-issued freezing order.