Musician
Shatta Wale has been hit by a law suit brought against him by events company
Charterhouse. Charterhouse is suing the musician for defamation and is seeking damages
of ten million Ghana Cedis.
The
controversial musician and self-acclaimed Dancehall King, Charles Nii Armah
Mensah Jnr. aka Shatta Wale descended heavily on Charterhouse a couple of
weeks ago in a series of videos released online.
The suit, sighted by some sections of the media, numbered
APB/2015 and dated 2nd October 2014, also has the CEO of the company Mr. Iyiola
Ayoade as plaintiff.
The two plaintiffs, Charterhouse and
Mr. Ayoade, are praying the Fast Track Division of the Accra High Court to
declare that the musician defamed them with four videos –
uploaded on September 23 and September 24.
They are asking the court to order Shatta Wale to
render “an unqualified apology and retraction of each of the four separate
videos with the approval by the Plaintiffs prior to the recording and
uploading” to his Facebook page
and to remain on his page for one month within a week of the judgment.
The third
relief sought by the Plaintiffs is for 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.
The
Plaintiffs again seek the court for an “order of perpetual injunction
restraining the Defendant, his agents, hirelings, manager(s), privies and
assigns or any person through him and howsoever described from making and/or
repeating the defamatory statements or similar statements in the nature of the
ones complained in the video recordings.”
Shatta
Wale accused Charterhouse of being corrupt and foolish in the videos. In
his usual no holds barred approach, Shatta Wale addressed the owners of the
outfit and warned them to stop denying musicians from other regions of Ghana
the needed recognition.
The series
of videos was not the first time Shatta Wale had publicly insulted
Charterhouse. He descended heavily on them after the 2013 edition of the Ghana
Music Awards, where he lost out on the Dancehall Artiste of the Year award to
Kaakie.
Manager of
Shatta Wale, Lawrence Asiamah Hanson, revealed in an interview last week that
Shatta Wale will not apologize for his insulting rants and is ready to defend
his artiste in court if Charterhouse chooses to pursue legal action against
him.
PRO of
Charterhouse, George Quaye, earlier said his outfit had no intention of
taking Shatta Wale to court for his utterances because it is not the first time
the ‘Dancehall King’ hitmaker is accusing them with no facts.
Shatta
Wale and his management are yet to react to the latest development.
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