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Court orders Bongo Ideas to pay 170k to Kojo Forex in defamation case

On 17 May 2023, Kojo Forex filed an amended statement of claim in court, accusing Bongo Ideas of libel. In his suit, he sought damages amounting to one million Ghana cedis (GH₵1,000,000).
After reviewing the evidence presented, Justice Forson Agyapong Baah of the Accra High Court, Jurisdiction 2, delivered a ruling on 28 January 2025.
 
The court compensated Kojo Forex with GH50,000 in aggravated, exemplary, and compensatory damages in addition to GH100,000 in general damages. Furthermore, the defendant was ordered to pay GH₵20,000 in legal costs.
The plaintiff received additional reliefs from the court in addition to the financial awards. Within 21 days of the judgment, Bongo Ideas was required to retract the defamatory statements and publicly apologize for them. The court also issued a permanent injunction preventing Bongo Ideas from making or publishing any further defamatory statements about Kojo Forex.
This ruling marks a significant legal setback for Bongo Ideas, who has often been a controversial figure on social media.

Background

Ghanaian forex trader Bright Kojo Onipayede, popularly known as Kojo Forex, sued Albert Nathaniel Hyde, widely known as Bongo Ideas, for defamation.
Kojo Forex claimed that Bongo Ideas published defamatory statements about him on Twitter, damaging his reputation. As a result, he sought GH₵1 million in compensation and a perpetual injunction restraining Bongo Ideas from making any further defamatory statements against him.
Kojo Forex demanded an unqualified apology on social media and the retraction of the defamatory tweets in the lawsuit, which he shared on his Twitter handle with additional details.
This legal battle followed an incident in April 2022, when Kojo Forex issued a stern warning to the blogger after Bongo Ideas went on a Twitter rant against him.

Nana Efia

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