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"Apart from the fact that Springfield did business with the NNPC in Nigeria, the News Statesman has no evidence that Springfield's dealings with NNPC were not legitimately secured…" Springfield Energy is an oil and gas company with operations in Ghana and Nigeria. Mr. Okyere and his company had sued the newspaper and its publisher, GAB Productions Limited, for GH¢30 million ($7.5m) for libel, at an Accra High Court on September 30. The duo also threatened to sue other newspapers for publishing unsubstantiated reports linking them to corruption in Nigeria. It is however unclear whether the plaintiffs would discontinue the suit.The full text of The New States Statesman's retraction reads:
"RETRACTION: REPORT ON KEVIN OKYERE, SPRINGFIELD The new statesman wishes to retract in full its report of Friday, September 25, 2015. "THE HANDSOME GHANAIAN MILLIONAIRE AND NIGERIA'S BEAUTIFUL $20BN EX-PETROLEUM MINISTER".
The new statesman, as its readers are fully aware, has been consistent in highlighting for its mainly Ghanaian readers efforts by the new Buhari government to tackle corruption in Nigeria. Much of such publications have focused on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and its former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.
In the course of our investigations, much of which was based on reports already circulating in the Nigerian media on her controversial handling of the ministry, names were mentioned of people with alleged influence around Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and in just two of the many numerous reports (specifically The Premium Times and little known the capital) the name Kevin Okyere, a Ghanaian businessman, came up.
Our checks further revealed that Kevin's company, Springfield, which is a player in the petroleum business here in Ghana, managed to secure oil-lifting deals in Nigeria under the Jonathan government. We must however, stress that none of the publications about Kevin Okyere or his company, Springfield, made any categorical allegation linking him to any corrupt dealings, either in Nigeria or Ghana. And our own publication did not say that Kevin Okyere or Springfield took part in any corrupt transaction in any of the two countries they are known to operate in Ghana and Nigeria.
Indeed our report on Kevin Okyere and Springfield went on to say that the successful young Ghanaian businessman became "an object of envy within oil circles in Nigeria", and added, "many others reduce the targeting of the successful Ghanaian deal-maker as one of pure envy."
Apart from the fact that Springfield did business with the NNPC in Nigeria, the News Statesman has no evidence that Springfield's dealings with NNPC were not legitimately secured and made no such categorical claim in our publication. We have since published a rejoinder from Springfield in which they completely denied doing anything illegitimate in either Nigeria or Ghana.
We are hereby rendering a full retraction and unreservedly regret any inconvenience which our said publication might have caused Springfield and its CEO, Kevin Okyere."
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YOU CAN SKIP THIS PART(short joke)...
A young couple moved into a new neighbourhood. The next morning while eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbour through the window hanging the wash outside.
"That laundry is not clean," she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap".
Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time the neighbour would hang laundry to dry, the young woman would make the same
comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learnt how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this!"
The husband replied: "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."
And so it is with life.
What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.
Easy to discuss other people, their lives and things that don't really concern us.
Yet we tend to forget- our window isn't that clean after all.
Clean up your window with the WORD! (THE TRUTH.)
LORD, please give us the strength, humility and courage that we may work on our faults first rather than seeing the faults in Others and castigating them.
Have a beautiful Week !
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