Alfred Obeng Boateng
The Managing Director of Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST), Alfred Obeng Boateng, has sued the Executive Secretary of Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC), Duncan Amoah, over allegations that he had contracted some people to kill him (Amoah) in three days.
Mr Obeng is demanding GH¢5 million from his accusers, as damages for professional, social reputation and psychological stress.
The two have been in a tussle of a sort after Mr Amoah accused the MD of BOST of causing in excess of GH?30 million in revenue loss from a transaction BOST had with an unlicensed company – regarding the sale of 1.8 million barrels of crude oil.
Mr Amoah also alleged that the BOST MD threatened to kill him within three days.
But Mr Obeng has described the allegation as “childish, baseless, fallacious and untrue just to tarnish his image.”
In a motion on notice filed by William Osei Kuffuor, lawyer for Mr Obeng, he prayed an Accra High Court for an order of injunction restraining the “Executive Secretary of COPEC, his gents, assigns, workmen and all persons claiming through or under him from further publishing or broadcasting any word or words or images in any manner whatsoever to the effect that plaintiff (BOST MD) had co-opted, engaged, contracted or solicited the services of any person or persons to curse, insult, attack, threaten the life of the defendant (Mr Amoah) or threatened to kill defendant in three days, pending the final determination of this suit upon the terms more particularly stated in the accompanying affidavit.”
The suit is also seeking any other orders that the court may deem fit and just.
The motion is expected to be moved by Mr Obeng’s lawyer on March 23, 2018.
The court has subsequently ordered Mr Amoah to cause an appearance to be entered for him within eight days after service of the writ on him – failure to do so “judgement may be given in your absence without further notice to you.”
By Gibril Abdul Razak