Energy Minister Paa Kwesi Nduom has summoned the Network Herald newspaper to an Accra High Court, claiming punitive and exemplary damages for libel over the August 6 –7 edition of the paper that carried the banner “purchase of Y2K software - Kwesi Nduom’s Company in $446m Loss to TOR”.

He is also seeking an injunction to restrain the newspaper, its editor and the author of the story or their agents from publishing “the words or any of them or any similar words or any words to the like effect.”

In that publication, the Network Herald reported its investigations into a yet to be released audit which uncovered financial loss amounting to $446,166.56 by Minister for Energy, Kwesi Nduom’s Deloitte & Touche Management Consultancy that also implicates the former Chief Executive of the Tema Oil Refinery.

The report also pointed out that the report had recommended to the government to proceed with criminal action against Mr Parker, Deloitte & Touche and members of the TOR Implication Committee for causing financial loss to TOR and the state.