A Plus Hot Over Defamatory Statement Against Businessman

Musician Kwame Asare Obeng, also known as A-Plus, is hot over defamatory remarks he directed at Ghanaian businessman Hassan Zein about two years ago.

As a result, the High Court, on the 29th day of January 2024, before His Lordship Justice Kwasi Adjenim-Boateng, approved the terms of an agreement between Mr. Hassan Zein, the plaintiff in the suit, and Kwame Asare Obeng, alias A-Plus, the defendant in the same suit.

The Plaintiff, a Ghanaian entrepreneur, a global investor and a known philanthropist, sued A-Plus for wild defamatory publications in various newspapers and mainstream social media, whose statements tarnished the hard-earned
reputation of the IHRC Ambassador at Large.

After months of court battles, A-Plus acknowledged that there was no truth in the published words and therefore asked his lawyers to seek an amicable settlement of the suit.

After a series of communications between the lawyers of both parties, A Plus proposed to apologise and retract the said statement through the media, in which he published the malicious statements and, in addition, pleaded equally to pay GHs100, 000 (one hundred thousand Ghana cedis), presumably the cost of litigation incurred by Mr. Hassan Zein as against the GHs 10,000,000 (ten million Ghana cedis) originally sued for.

A-Plus has yet to comply with the consent judgment passed.

Attached is the consent judgment of the High Court.


Hassan Zein.