[ 2014-10-08 ]

Charterhouse sues Shatta Wale, demands GHS 10M in damages
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 as plaintiff the CEO of the company Mr. Iyiola
Ayoade.

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 in the series of videos.

The Plaintiffs are also 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”
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.

Source - Citifmonline

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