Actress Martha Ankomah has dismissed claims that she has reached a GHS 300,000 settlement with Kumawood actor Kwadwo Nkansah (LilWin) of their ongoing GH₵5 million defamation lawsuit.
This follows preliminary studies that an settlement was reached on Tuesday, twenty fifth February, after a earlier breakdown in negotiations, which was introduced in open court docket.
In accordance with StarrFM.com.gh, as a part of the settlement course of, each events are required to file the agreed phrases and seem earlier than the court docket on 1st April 2025, the place Justice Forson Baah Agyepong will undertake it as a consent judgment.
Nevertheless, reacting to the studies in an interview with Adom FM, Martha Ankomah clarified that no such settlement had been agreed upon.
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It isn’t true that we now have reached this settlement. It’s unhappy—I don’t know who’s writing these tales. The reality is that once we went to court docket, the choose directed us to return with the apology. So on 1st April, we are going to return to court docket and evaluation the apology to make sure that it’s acceptable.
She additional acknowledged:
I’ve beforehand indicated that if he apologises and retracts his statements, I’d not take something from him, perhaps simply our authorized prices. However I don’t need something from him—not a dime.
She added:
I simply need him to do the proper factor so that folks perceive that you just can not say something and get away with it on this nation. That is merely to function a lesson. I’m not good—everybody makes errors and needs to be forgiven—however I would like him to grasp that the legislation works on this nation.
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The court docket has made no determination on the settlement. We’re simply ready for the apology, and regardless of the choose decides shall be communicated to the general public. His earlier apology was insufficient as a result of he didn’t retract his statements, together with the insults and lies—he went too far.
In the meantime, each events have agreed to return to court docket on 1st April 2025 for the phrases to be formally adopted as a consent judgment.
