Shatta Wale to appear in court on Monday - Egbert Faibille
Lawyers for Charter House, leading events
management and production company, have called for circumspection in
public comments on the lawsuit the company recently filed against
dancehall musician, Shatta Wale.
Shatta Wale, brands ambassador for the ‘Guinness Made of Black’
campaign, would appear in court on Monday, October 20, to answer charges
of defamation filed against him by Charter House, a suit which has
sparked varied commentary in the media.
“Whilst the company does not aim at stifling freedom of expression, it
is important to respectfully bring to the attention of all who wish to
comment on matters relating to the pending suit that improper commentary
on matters before the courts have the likelihood of poisoning the
streams of justice and are punishable by contempt,” FAIBILLE &
FAIBILLE, solicitors for Charter House, noted in a press statement
issued on Tuesday.
It said Charter House appreciates its professional working relationship
with the media and does not want to drag any media house or any of its
staff to the courts in respect of any contemptible comments on their
various platforms in respect of the pending suit.
“Accordingly, we request of media houses that whilst matters in respect
of the suit may come up during phone-ins and other programmes, they
have a duty to ensure that the matter is not prejudged in any manner
conceivable as same will constitute a usurpation of the sole right of
the High Court to determine the suit,” the statement added.
The two plaintiffs in the case are Charter House and its Chief Executive, Iyiola Ayoade.
They are praying the Fast Track Division of the Accra High Court to
declare that the musician defamed them in a series of videos he released
online a few weeks ago.
They are therefore seeking “an unqualified apology and retraction of
each of the four separate videos, with the approval by the plaintiffs
prior to the recording and uploading” of the videos to his Facebook page
and to remain on his page for one month within a week of the judgment.
Again, the plaintiffs want Shatta Wale to send the four videos in which
he renders apologies to the plaintiffs to “all media houses and online
publications that have aired the defamatory videos complained of and
ensure that same and/or published at his own expense” within a week of
the judgment.
Shatta Wale’s attacks on Charter House started about two years ago when
he was nominated in one of the categories for the Vodafone Ghana Music
Awards (VGMA) but lost the award to female dancehall act Kaakie.
Soon after the event ended, Shatta Wale got angry and was reported to
have vandalized Charter House’s property at the venue. He followed with a
song in which he insulted the company and even used some unprintable
adjectives to describe the genitals of Kaakie, the artiste he lost the
award to.
Shatta Wale later made a ‘U-turn’ when he publicly apologized to
Charter House but soon after that, released another song to insult the
company.
The musician is also on record to have described the Ghanaian media as
“the most foolish” set of journalists he ever came across—an insulting
statement that has been endorsed by his manager, Lawrence Nana Asiamah
Hanson, aka Bull Dog.
Shatta Wale took to his official Facebook page to write:
“Infact
Ghana Media Is The Most Foolish Media I Have Ever Seen In My Life…Any
Media That Publish Any Fake News About Me Shatta Wale Is A Pu**Y…!!! I
Have Said It…PU**Y,” and surprisingly the first person to like the statement on Shatta Wale’s wall was Bull Dog.
The popular musician has gained notoriety for insulting persons and
institutions whose opinion about him, he does not agree with.
Though the attitude has been largely condemned by entertainment pundits
and civil society, Shatta Wale’s handlers have not chided him, at least
publicly, about his conduct.
When Bolt and Betty started their sexual activities just after a week of Big Brother The Chase, we thought that was super fast! Well we seem to have a new record in Big Brother Africa when it comes to sex in the house. I haven’t been up to date with the ‘ins and outs ‘ (yes mind the pun) of Big Brother Hotshots because of my busy schedule
but I found out in twitter during last Sunday’s eviction show, that
Mira and Luis got down and dirty within the first week before Mira’s
eviction. So I searched a bit online and came by this footage that
someone recorded and uploaded on Youtube. Of course as usual, they were
under the sheets and so can always deny actually having sex…but look at the movements under the sheets and decide for yourself!!!!
