Kofi Appianin Ennin To Sue AG NACOB For Defamation

Businessman, Kofi Appianin Ennin has threatened to sue the Attorney General and the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) for defamation.

Mr Ennin says he was wrongly accused and dragged to court for no offence.

He was arrested in 2015 for allegedly smuggling 6,240 kilogrammes of cannabis (Wee) to the United Kingdom.

The Accra High Court later remanded him to appear before it.

Kofi Appianin Ennin was later acquitted and discharged by the Accra High Court and later the Supreme Court.

Nine years after the case, peeved Kofi Appianin Ennin believes the arrest and prosecution were a set-up to destroy his reputation as a businessman without any evidence.

Justice of the High Court, Accra, Alhaj Justice Abdullah Iddrisu said in his ruling, “I have heard parties in the matter through their counsel at the last sitting of this court on 25 April 2017 the court indicated that it would discharge the accused persons if the prosecution was not ready to start the trial of the accused persons and that two years was long enough for the prosecution to have started the trial of the accused persons.

“It is obvious that the prosecution in this case is not ready to start the trial. Flowing from what this court said on 25th April 2017, I have no option than to discharge the accused persons and they are hereby discharged for the delay is unreasonable.”

This ruling was later upheld by the Supreme Court before he was also cleared of criminal charges through investigations done by the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service in 2021.

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