The tension between dancehall artistes Shatta Wale and Samini has upped a notch higher with the latter throwing jabs at the former in a series of tweets.
This follows a defamation lawsuit by event organisers, Charterhouse, against Shatta Wale.
The plaintiffs, Chartehouse, are seeking the court to award damages of GH¢10M against the Defendant, Shatta Wale, for what they consider as defamatory statements made against them in some videos he recorded and uploaded on Facebook.
In a series of messages posted by rival artiste, Samini, he made mockery of the reigning Artiste of the Year, with one suggesting that 'maybe someone should've warned them'.
Although Samini didn't mention Shatta Wale's name in the tweets, it was obvious he was the target. One of his tweets read "...Eii guys. Pls help me convert 10m gh into USD $ wai. What's the current rate kraa?...".
He also added "Soak da pressure wai na yawa apai tis333 p)mp) no...". Samini also suggested that perhaps he (Samini) should've sued long ago.
Shatta Wale, who has been very active on social media but has turned a low key after the suit was filed, is yet to comment on Samini's series of 'jabs'. His tweet on Thursday morning was "Ghana make sweet waaa..GM lovely people lol." He is also yet to comment on the suit.
Documents sighted by entertainment pundit, Francis Doku, show that the suit numbered APB/2015 and dated October 2, 2014, which also has as plaintiff the CEO of the company, Mr. Iyiola Ayoade, was filed at the Fast Track Division of the High Court in Accra in relation to four separate videos the musician uploaded on social media which they consider as defamatory.
The two plaintiffs, that is Charterhouse and Mr. Ayoade, are asking the court to declare that Shatta Wale, real name, Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr, had defamed them with the four separate videos he recorded and uploaded to his Facebook page.
According to the writ, two each of the said videos were respectively uploaded on September 23 and 24, 2014 respectively.
Another relief the Plaintiffs are asking from the court is to order the Defendant to render “an unqualified apology and retraction of each of the four separate videos with the approval by the Plaintiffs prior to the recording and uploading” to his Facebook page and to remain on his page for one month within a week of the judgment.
The third relief sought by the Plaintiffs is for Shatta Wale to send the four videos in which he renders apologies to the Plaintiffs to “all media houses and online publications that have aired the defamatory videos complained of and ensure that same and/or published at his own expense” within a week of the judgment.
The Plaintiffs again seek the court for an “order of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant, his agents, hirelings, manager(s), privies and assigns or any person through him and howsoever described from making and/or repeating the defamatory statements or similar statements in the nature of the ones complained in the video recordings.”
Pending the hearing of the case, as requested by lawyer for the Plaintiffs Egbert Faibille Jnr, on October 20, 2014, the Plaintiffs are praying the court to order an interlocutory injunction on the Defendants from uploading on Facebook or any other social media platform the four videos aforementioned and/or any other similar videos.
Source: Alfred Sarpong I www.viasat1.com.gh
Additional information by Francis Doku
This follows a defamation lawsuit by event organisers, Charterhouse, against Shatta Wale.
The plaintiffs, Chartehouse, are seeking the court to award damages of GH¢10M against the Defendant, Shatta Wale, for what they consider as defamatory statements made against them in some videos he recorded and uploaded on Facebook.
In a series of messages posted by rival artiste, Samini, he made mockery of the reigning Artiste of the Year, with one suggesting that 'maybe someone should've warned them'.
Although Samini didn't mention Shatta Wale's name in the tweets, it was obvious he was the target. One of his tweets read "...Eii guys. Pls help me convert 10m gh into USD $ wai. What's the current rate kraa?...".
He also added "Soak da pressure wai na yawa apai tis333 p)mp) no...". Samini also suggested that perhaps he (Samini) should've sued long ago.
Shatta Wale, who has been very active on social media but has turned a low key after the suit was filed, is yet to comment on Samini's series of 'jabs'. His tweet on Thursday morning was "Ghana make sweet waaa..GM lovely people lol." He is also yet to comment on the suit.
Documents sighted by entertainment pundit, Francis Doku, show that the suit numbered APB/2015 and dated October 2, 2014, which also has as plaintiff the CEO of the company, Mr. Iyiola Ayoade, was filed at the Fast Track Division of the High Court in Accra in relation to four separate videos the musician uploaded on social media which they consider as defamatory.
The two plaintiffs, that is Charterhouse and Mr. Ayoade, are asking the court to declare that Shatta Wale, real name, Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr, had defamed them with the four separate videos he recorded and uploaded to his Facebook page.
According to the writ, two each of the said videos were respectively uploaded on September 23 and 24, 2014 respectively.
Another relief the Plaintiffs are asking from the court is to order the Defendant to render “an unqualified apology and retraction of each of the four separate videos with the approval by the Plaintiffs prior to the recording and uploading” to his Facebook page and to remain on his page for one month within a week of the judgment.
The third relief sought by the Plaintiffs is for Shatta Wale to send the four videos in which he renders apologies to the Plaintiffs to “all media houses and online publications that have aired the defamatory videos complained of and ensure that same and/or published at his own expense” within a week of the judgment.
The Plaintiffs again seek the court for an “order of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant, his agents, hirelings, manager(s), privies and assigns or any person through him and howsoever described from making and/or repeating the defamatory statements or similar statements in the nature of the ones complained in the video recordings.”
Pending the hearing of the case, as requested by lawyer for the Plaintiffs Egbert Faibille Jnr, on October 20, 2014, the Plaintiffs are praying the court to order an interlocutory injunction on the Defendants from uploading on Facebook or any other social media platform the four videos aforementioned and/or any other similar videos.
Source: Alfred Sarpong I www.viasat1.com.gh
Additional information by Francis Doku
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