Famend personal authorized practitioner Ace Anan Ankomah has taken steps to implement a GH¢2.95 million defamation judgement secured in opposition to Kevin Ekow Baidoo Taylor, the U.S.-based social media commentator and founding father of Loud Silence Media.
Mr. Ankomah was awarded damages in February 2020 by the Accra Excessive Courtroom after efficiently suing Taylor for making defamatory allegations in one in all his extensively circulated social media video documentaries underneath the sequence “With All Due Respect.”
The case stemmed from a video wherein Taylor alleged that Mr. Ankomah was a part of a scheme involving a Dubai-based mineral agency and parts throughout the New Patriotic Get together (NPP) authorities, purportedly geared toward discrediting Nana Appiah Mensah (NAM1), the embattled CEO of Menzgold.
Mr. Ankomah described the claims as false, malicious, and damaging to his popularity.
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Within the 2020 judgement, the courtroom—presided over by Justice Kweku T. Ackaah-Boafo—dominated in Mr. Ankomah’s favour, awarding him:
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GH¢2,000,000 typically damages
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GH¢500,000 in aggravated damages
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GH¢400,000 in exemplary damages
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GH¢50,000 in authorized prices
The courtroom additionally issued a perpetual injunction in opposition to Taylor and his media agency, barring them from publishing any additional defamatory content material, and ordered them to publish an apology and take away the offending materials inside 14 days.
Nonetheless, Kevin Taylor, who was not current in the course of the trial and had not returned to Ghana for a number of years, solely lately re-entered the jurisdiction.
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This allowed Mr. Ankomah to pursue enforcement of the judgement.
On July 30, 2025, Mr. Ankomah filed a movement ex parte for substituted service. The courtroom granted the appliance, permitting him to serve Taylor with the Discover of Entry of Judgement and Penal Discover by means of a one-time half-page publication within the Day by day Graphic.
This substituted service was effected on Saturday, August 2, 2025, marking an necessary step towards imposing the courtroom’s ruling.
The judgement additionally drew sturdy language from the bench, with the courtroom describing Taylor’s conduct as “cavalier,” “egregious,” “malevolent,” and “reprehensible.”
It famous that Taylor’s actions induced important reputational harm and psychological misery to the plaintiff.
Regardless of Taylor’s aggressive public persona, the courtroom noticed that he failed to reply when legally challenged, stating that Taylor didn’t “have the cojones to reply” after the lawsuit was filed.
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The courtroom additional affirmed its jurisdiction, ruling that though the defendants had been exterior Ghana, the defamatory content material was deliberately circulated inside Ghana, consumed by a Ghanaian viewers, and induced hurt to the plaintiff whose popularity {and professional} standing are rooted within the nation.
Mr. Ankomah was represented within the case by Thaddeus Sory and Marie-Nicole Poku, whereas Kevin Taylor neither appeared in courtroom nor appointed authorized illustration.
With substituted service now full, Mr. Ankomah is poised to provoke full enforcement of the judgement, which incorporates financial compensation, a public apology, and content material elimination, doubtlessly setting a authorized precedent for related cross-border defamation circumstances in Ghana’s digital age.
