George Mireku Duker, the representative for Tarkwa Nsuem, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Nana Nyowah Panyin IV, the head of the Dompim-Pepesa tribe, on allegations that the MP engaged in unlawful mining.
The Multimedia Group and the Class Media Group are additional defendants in the lawsuit filed on October 14.
The MP considers the statements aired on Joy FM and Accra FM to be defamatory.
The people he has sued, including Mr. Mireku Duker, who also serves as the deputy minister of lands and natural resources, want them to repudiate and apologize for their part in disseminating the allegations.
He also demands GH10 million in addition to aggravating damages stemming from the two media outlets' dissemination of the charges.
When asserting that there is unlawful mining taking place in the Western Region, Nana Nyowah Panyin IV also quoted Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, Minister of the Western Region.
In his lawsuit, Mr. Mireku Duker claimed that the allegedly offensive words were "completely false, the invention of the defendants, and were mischievously designed by the defendant to disparage him, stain his reputation, court public disaffection for him, and to bring him into abhorrence in the eyes of right-thinking members of the public and the global community."
The MP claims that his reputation has been "violently harmed" and that this has hurt his chances of winning the upcoming election.
Additionally, he said that the two stations did not offer him the opportunity to refute the accusations.Joy News has apologized to Mr. Mireku Duker and Mr. Darko-Mensah since the lawsuit was filed.