Garry Nimako drags Fourth Estate, MFWA to court

Private legal practitioner and Managing Partner at Marfo and Associates, Gary Nimako Marfo, has filed a writ of summons at the High Court in Accra against four journalists and the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), alleging defamation.

In the suit, dated September 30, 2025, the plaintiff lists as defendants Seth J. Borkpe, Sulemana Braimah, William Nlanjerbor Jalulah, Philip Teye Agbove, and the Media Foundation for West Africa LBG.

According to the writ, Mr. Nimako Marfo, who also served as Board Chairman of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), contends that the defendants jointly published and circulated a defamatory story under the headline:

“Lottery Bonanza: How NLA gave away GHC3 billion prime business in exchange for peanuts.”

The plaintiff claims the publication, released on September 29 and further circulated on social media on September 30, 2025, was carried by The Fourth Estate, a project hosted on the MFWA’s website.

He insists that the media outlet is not incorporated under Ghanaian law but has been given platform by the MFWA to operate as an investigative journalism initiative.

Mr. Nimako Marfo argues that the story, advertised and republished by the defendants, was false and injurious to his reputation as a lawyer and public official.

He is therefore seeking the court’s intervention against what he describes as a defamatory publication intended to damage his image.

– Mynewsgh