RAYMOND ARCHER’S SON IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW

David Tamakloe, an unfortunate boy and a protégé of Raymond Archer, who has been hired and who co-opted to publish various unfounded, baseless and frivolous attacks on the person of Ghanaian business mogul, Dr. Daniel McKorley and his business entities is currently in the grips of the law for a defamation suit by the said Mcdan Group of Companies.
The estranged David Tamakloe has been on the run for quite some time now thinking that he can dodge the long searching grips of the law. This will not be the first or the second time David Tamakloe will be forced by law to apologize to Dr Daniel Nii Mckorley for his sponsored character cannibalism spree.

Tamakloe is said to have published several falsehood, disparaging and defamatory posts about Dr. McKorley and McDan Group of Companies on so many occasions, denigrating and bringing into immense disrepute the hard-earned reputation, integrity and the brand of the business Mogul and his conglomerate in the eyes and minds of the right thinking members of the society, including his business partners and clientele (both local and international), of which he has been allowed to go scort free. This time round, there is no a mediator for his persistent sins and, therefore, cannot seek the sacrament of penance.

One of such is when he published that *”Ex-President Nana Addo is furiously angry with Mr. McCorley for exposing NPP”*, and the infamous *Seizure of “McDan Aviation Aircraft UK for unpaid Debts”* among others.

This same David Tamakloe was said to have been part of the Cartel that insighted and instigated The Fourth Estate, a Ghanaian Media outlet, to publish a very damning and business-wrecking reportage about Electrochem Ghana Limited, one of Dr. McKorley’s entities.

The McDan Group of Companies, a well known Ghanaian conglomerate with interests largely in the aviation, logistics, and mining sectors, with its niche etched in both local and international business communities, avers that Tamakloe’s article was published without proper recourse to verification has caused severe reputational and financial harm to his person and that of the group.

The company, which has received multiple industry awards and runs the philanthropic McDan Foundation, avers that the false claims and denigration have eroded investor confidence, trust and subjected the firm to public ridicule.  We can not be in a country where certain journalists turned into businessmen would use the media as a tool to ruin or suppress the brand of defendless businessmen.

In its lawsuit, McDan Group of Companies seeks the court’s declaration that the said article was defamatory, and that a retraction with equal prominence to the original publication be effected by the defendant, plus a formal and concise apology in a national newspaper and on social media, and general damages of GH₵10 million. 

Failure on the part of Mr. Tamakloe to obey such orders, the court as per its discretionary powers enshrined in the principles of equity, would award the requisite damages as by law prescribed in favour of the plaintiff.

This prayer, when granted by the court, the plaintiff is of the firm belief that, it shall serve a retributive and deterent effect on the defendant in his future endeavours.

The Ghanaian law, its competent courts of judicature or legal jurisprudence has a beautiful way of compelling or subpoenaing a wrong doer to answer for his/her wrong doing. A part of such processes is for the court to cause a supposed defendant or respondent to be served ex-parte by substitution.
Failure to respond to same by entering appearance or causing an appearance to be entered for and on your behalf further connotes that you give the courts the leeway for judgment to be entered against you in absentia for disrespecting the orders of same as fugitives of the law.

By Nii Anumle Oyanka Aryeetey