Mr Kenneth Asare, Operations Manager of the Ghana Nut Company Limited has accused Zaa Radio, a Tamale based radio station for publicizing what it described as an untrue information regarding the operation of the company without cross-checking its facts and therefore demanded a retraction of the story.
In a signed press statement management of the company claimed that Zaa Radio aired a story and published it on its website indicating that the company was pursuing a negative agenda against the northern parts of the country saying, “The alleged defamatory material was published on the radio station’s website and in the live transmission of a panel set up to discuss certain alleged atrocities meted out on certain identified persons”.
The statement indicated that Ms. Dora Torwiseh who is currently with the Nuts For Growth Company in Tamale was formally with the Ghana Nut Company as a purchasing assistant but resigned on 19th September, 2013.
The statement which was contained in a press statement issued in Tamale on Monday and signed by Mr Kenneth Asare, Operations Officer of the GNL and made available to the media indicated that Ms Torwiseh was re-assigned to a new role after she misconduct herself.
It said Ms Torwiseh continued to hold herself as an employee of GNL stressing that it became imminent that a disclaimer had to be issued by GNL dissociating itself from the spurious activities and manner of conduct of business of Ms. Dora Torwiseh.
“Thereafter the company and its CEO have been constantly subjected to a barrage of false accusations from the media which finally culminated in this publication by ZAA Radio”, it said.
The statement indicated that the said publication does attack the company’s financial position by falsely claiming that GNL has not paid its debts owed to persons who supplied it with produce and that some of such persons had even died without being duly paid.
It noted that to impute unfitness dishonesty or incompetence in any office or business carried out by GNL amounted to slander and libel.
The statement said the publication was full of false reporting which the reporter did not bother to verify and the false within the ambit of the stated criminal offences and therefore full of untruths about Ghana Nuts Company Ltd noting that it conveys libelous and slanderous statements about GNL and therefore founds a cause for action in a civil suit.
It demanded a retraction of the said publication and an apology in the same mode in which the false publication was placed within seven (7) days, failing which a civil suit to claim damages might be instituted against the publishers.