Justice Kpegah libels Kofi Coomson

In the most ridiculous exhibition of mercenary writing by no less a person than a former Senior Member of the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice F. Y. Kpegah last month issued a libel-laden letter to Kofi Coomson, which we are at pains to publish.

The letter is in defense of Togbe Afede, a long-standing friend of Mr. Coomson, with whom Kofi says he has shared several deep conversations, and several strategic information intelligence.

Known in private life as James Akpo, Kofi recalls his friendship with the man now known as Togbe Afede, and Kwesi Agbley, a Director of the Daily Guide newspaper, whom Kofi singularly put on the board of Ghana Cement Works, where he has made him proud by serving brilliantly, after a similar effort to have him installed as Director of Ghana Tourist Development Company was frustrated by Mr. D. K. Osei, ex-President Kufuor's Secretary, during the tenure of the late Hawa Yakubu, then Minister of Tourism in 2003/4.

It is interesting to note that the Government of Mozambique has found the talent inherent in Kwesi Agbley, and contracted him as a consultant in that country on a far better package than he would have earned in Ghana. His family is with him in that country.

Now read the drivel by Justice Kpegah, which we hope to publish in full soon.

PS. I have on good authority that you have regretted having defected to the NPP. If this is an attempt at the rehabilitation of yourself through your mentor, and the destruction of another is the quid pro quo, know that he, who destroys another in order to succeed, has destruction waiting at the gate of his success.

I demand that you publish this letter in full and unedited; in addition, I reserve the right to circulate it to other press houses and take an advertiser's announcement in the Daily Graphic at my own expenses.

KOFI'S NOTE; Both the Daily Graphic and The Ghanaian Times know better than to publish your piece unedited. They have professional editors, and would dare not publish it, not only because I will surely sue, but because they are not of your ilk.

Now we know what blood runs through your veins as a judge of the Supreme Court; my God. And to think that I was once looking up to you for Justice, with Ms. Justice Gloria Akuffo and the rest in 1996! THANK God for Nana Akufo Addo, Akoto Ampaw and Professor Armaah!

Paragraph 26: I need not reveal the role I played personally in the Hohoe North and South constituencies during and after the elections.

Paragraph 29: We are fully aware that we are a minority tribe in Ghana, and that there is no love lost between us and those who consider themselves as the majority tribe.

Paragraph 36: Even in a regime under which Voltarians felt they could be safe, the POWER BROKERS craftily targeted for elimination almost any Voltarian of substance in the NDC government. I will only mention my own case in which a false article, full of venom about me was planted in The Chronicle with your connivance, because your mentors thought I was a threat to their 'country man' –Chief Justice I. K. Abban. This was in the Vol.5. No. 537, Wednesday 6th Thursday 7th August, 1997.

37. The article started thus; “Chronicle Intelligence has picked up a complex plan to replace the wizened old man of Parliament, Mr. Justice Daniel F. Annan, with the man whose cold but comely features and performance has dragged public confidence in the judiciary to an all time low, Mr. Justice I. K. Abban, the Chief Justice of Ghana'.

38. The said libelous article continued 'But worse still for the people of Ghana, the man who views on civil liberties and personal freedoms are as anachronistic and retrograde as they are fiendish and dangerous, is on line to be made the Chief Justice.(SIC).

Mr. Justice Kpegah shared the same chambers with the embattled Minister of Justice, Dr. Obed Asamoah, in Ho, and are ideological soul mates.” 39. You put my picture and that of the late Chief Justice I. K. Abban on the front page under the article. Under the picture of the late Justice I. K. Abban was the following tribute; “Resisting subliminal pressure to bow out.”

40. Under my picture was a dirge; 'F. Y. Kpegah as CJ. Will the last person to leave Ghana please turn off the lights'.

Tomorrow, if we can clear this article, we will publish the remainder.