Former Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has threatened to take legal action against the current Minister for Government Communications, Felix Kwakye-Ofosu, over what he considers untruthful and malicious publications about him.
Mr. Dame, has, in a letter dated 12th March, 2026, delivered to Mr. Ofosu Kwakye and only now sighted by the media, demanded the Minister for Government Communications take the following actions within seven (7) days of receipt of the letter a retraction and apology for the utterly false publication about me (Godfred Dame) on Metro TV’s “Good Morning Ghana programme on 10th October, 2025 the subject matter of this letter, a permanent deletion of the publication complained of from all online portals and Delivery of a formal written apology to me (Godfred Dame), acknowledging the harm caused.
In the demand notice, the former Attorney-General noted that on Friday, 10th October, 2025, Felix Kwakye Ofosu appeared as a panellist on the widely watched television programme on an Accra-based television station – Metro TV – dubbed “Good Morning Ghana”, and made allegations that Mr. Dame was complicit in illegal mining (galamsey) by allegedly refusing to take action on a docket on Akonta Mining presented to the former Attorney-General when he was in office.
“On the said programme, you categorically asserted without any basis that I, the undersigned, when serving the Republic in the capacity of Attorney-General and Minister for Justice from 2021 to 2025, had deliberately ignored a report confirming illegal mining activities allegedly perpetrated by Akonta Mining Company Limited, a company owned by the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP, Bernard Antwi Bosiako (Wontumi). According to you, the report had been presented to me in office as Attorney-General of the Republic by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.
Among other things, you stated President Akufo-Addo was not willing to punish anybody for anything that he did under his government. They engaged in illegal mining. The CID investigates, and then you come on national television and say that the person who has been fingered in that CID report is innocent, and did nothing … he knew It… If he didn’t know, then he did not deserve to be in the position. The Attorney-General of the day [my good self] cannot claim that he didn’t know about the report.” Parts of the letter written by Godfred Yeboah Dame stated.
Remarkably, a co-panellist on the programme with you, Mr. Paul Adom-Otchere, intervened almost immediately and drew the attention of the Minister for Government Communications to the falsity and seriousness of the wild allegations he had made about him live on a television programme watched throughout the nation and accessible globally via Facebook, YouTube and other modern instruments for transmission of information. Specifically, Mr. Adom-Otchere stated on the programme: “Maybe you should call the Attorney-General and ask him … that the Government Minister says you are aware of the report. He says I am not aware of the report”.
According to Godfred Dame, surprisingly, spurred on by a vicious desire to disseminate false and defamatory information about his good self, Felix Kwakye-Ofosu continued to say: “Paul, what you are saying has grave implications for the competence of Godfred Dame as Attorney-General. What you are saying is that … I am saying that there was a CID report done in 2022 and given to the Government, which they did not act on. I am saying that the Attorney-General and the Government are aware. The implication of what you are saying is that he (Dame) was not fit for the job, and by inaction, he was complicit in galamsey.”
The former Attorney-General and Minister for Justice who served the Republic from 2021 – 2025, asserts that Ofosu Kwakye’s false allegations were republished by various websites and media houses and sparked intense alarm and dismay in view of the seriousness of the subject matter and the deep implications for him, a citizen who held the respectable office of Attorney-General and Minister for Justice for four years. Consequently, one Jonathan Asare, a Ghanaian private legal practitioner, filed a right to information (RTI) request to the Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice to ascertain the veracity of the allegations.
However, in a response to the RTI request signed by the designated Information Officer of the Ministry of Justice and Office of the Attorney-General, a Lydia Attoh, delivered on 22nd December, 2025, the Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice categorically exposed the falsity of Ofosu Kwakye’s claims when it indicated that the CID did not present any docket on the alleged mining activities of Akonta Mining Limited to the Office or to Mr. Godfred Yeboah Dame between 2022 and 2024.
Further, the Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice stated clearly that the docket on Akonta Mining, in relation to which the current Minister for Government Communications made the allegations, was presented to the office only on 15th September, 2025. Mr. Dame attached a copy of the responses to the RTI request delivered by the Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice to the demand notice on Felix Ofosu Kwakye for ease of reference.
The former Attorney-General in his demand on the current Minister for Government Communications, noted that the allegations by Felix Kwakye Ofosu “were not only false but sinister, reckless and malicious given that as Minister for Government Communications, you have access to every means of verifying the truth of information you publish about the official record of former senior officials of government and all ministries in the Republic. Your statements about me, like many others you have published about me on different occasions in the past, were the product of a hateful and vicious imagination. The recklessness with which you published the words complained of betrays the deep-seated malice you bear against me. Indeed, the internet and mass media are replete with many false and malicious statements you in particular, and other associates of your political party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in general, have made about me. Mr. Dame stated.
To demonstrate the harm caused by Felix Kwakye Ofosu’s defamatory publication, the former Attorney-General and Minister for Justice touted his respectable record as a legal practitioner with about twenty-three years standing at the Bar, which “reflects active devotion to the promotion of human rights, constitutionalism and freedom of expression”. Mr. Dame noted that he acted as counsel “in some of the most significant trials in the courts of Ghana over twenty years ago (at a time that you [Felix Kwakye Ofosu] had not even entered the university”.
Mr. Dame further pointed out to Felix Kwakye Ofosu that in public service, he earned an even more respectable image on the international stage as on numerous occasions as he led projects and represented Ghana on various fora including, the United Nations, the African Union, Economic Community of West-African States (ECOWAS) and international tribunals. “My record in an effective and sound legal representation of the State internationally speaks for itself.” Mr. Dame stated.
The former Attorney-General observed further that the publication in falsely attributing to him complicity in the criminal enterprise of illegal mining (galamsey), directly depicted him as a criminal. Other allegations by Ofosu Kwakye about him were also clearly defamatory in a serious way, calculated to disparage him and “stray way beyond the permissible limits of free speech and brings me into public odium and contempt.”
He served a warning on the Minister for Government Communications that “should you fail to comply with this demand within 7 days of the delivery of this letter, I will surely institute legal proceedings against you and the owners of Metro TV (the network which provided you the platform) for punitive and aggravated damages for defamation as well as costs of litigation.”
