Popular investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas must testify in chambers without a face mask, according to an Accra High Court decision.
The decision states that whenever Anas is expected to testify in the criminal case brought by former Ghana Football Association President Kwasi Nyantakyi, he must appear in person in chambers.
This comes after the Supreme Court overturned a previous decision by a lower court allowing Anas to testify in secret.
It will be recalled that Nyantakyi was allegedly caught accepting cash gifts and buying influence in Anas’ “Number 12” exposé in 2018.
He was forced to resign as GFA President as a result, and he also lost his roles as a member of the FIFA Council and the first vice president of CAF.
Following the exposé, FIFA punished Nyantakyi with a lifetime ban and a fine of 500,000 Swiss Francs.
Additionally, he was accused of conspiring to commit fraud and of corrupting a public official, but later released on bail with some sureties.
Nyantakyi’s reputation has been harmed, even though his lifetime ban was later reduced to 15 years as a result of an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) three years ago.
Kennedy Agyapong, a member of parliament for Assin Central, won his protracted legal battle with undercover journalist Anas in March 2023, and was given GH50,000 in damages.
Following the debut of his Number 12 exposé, Anas had filed a defamation lawsuit against the MP for Assin Central.
This came after the lawmaker also broadcast the documentary “Who watches the watchman,” in which he characterized Anas as dishonest, extortionate, and subject to blackmail.
In a related news, Anas Aremeyaw Anas was fined Gh100,000 by a high court in Accra for illegal trespassing and using police and land guards to intimidate one Adolf Tetteh Adjei, a legitimate landowner, out of his own land.
In a case brought before the high court presided over by Justice Kwame Gyamfi Osei by Adolf Tetteh Adjei as plaintiff over a 2 acre disputed land at Tse-Ado taken over by Anas Aremeyaw Anas in 2017, the court found Anas responsible for trespassing and illegally building on someone else’s land “using police and land guards day and night to brazenly deny Plaintiff from use of his land.”
