Carl Wilson, the man whose state-backed car confiscation fiefdom came crumbling down as a pack of cards, even when he doubled as an operative of the National Security apparatus, has turned his guns on a pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) newspaper. Carl Wilson, using a member of the NDC legal team, Chris Ackumey, has hauled Daily Democrat to court for allegedly publishing defamatory articles about him, thereby making him a laughing stock in eyes of the public. Carl Wilson had enjoyed the protection of Deputy Chief of Staff Alex Segbefia at a time many Ghanaians asked for his head because of the scandals associated with his tenure as head of the Confiscated Vehicles Allocation Committee. He is particularly incensed with Michael Dokosi and Livingstone Pay Charlie, Editor and Deputy Editor respectively of the newspaper, whose enterprise, according to him, has done copious damage to his image. The two persons have been dragged before an Accra Fast Track Court through a writ served on them on 13th August 20 I 0 by the ex-Castle man. The reliefs he seeks include the grant of a perpetual injunction restraining the newspaper from further publishing stories which he claims are defamatory. He is also calling for an apology. He particularly took exception to a story headlined ‘Carl Wilson Again’ which narrated how the man was in hot soup for allegedly stealing a car. The story claimed that Wilson failed in an attempt to steal a car allocated to a customs officer. After allegedly collecting an allocation letter in respect of the car, he (Wilson) denied same when confronted by the customs officer. The story, he said, presented him as a thief, unreliable and a fraud, descriptions which for him had reduced him in the estimation of right-thinking members of the society. The two editors, in a show of defiance, have dared Carl Wilson, describing the writ as useless, warning that his action would only open a can of worms against him. A certain NDC supporter, AI- Wahab, who lost his car as a result of Wilson's allegedly fictitious management of his fiefdom at Tema, traced the car to the Castle's car washing bay. There were several instances of car seizure by the Castle car syndicate operating from the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff which went unreported. During Carl Wilson's predicament in the court of public opinion, he relished the support of the Deputy of Chief of Staff as well as that of President J.E.A Mills, who said that, without any concrete evidence, he could not dismiss the man. The President's testimonial paralleled Alex Segbefia's when he spoke to a number of radio stations, during which he asked for evidence that Carl Wilson was a bad guy. He particularly said that "I do not work with conjectures." Wilson was finally chased out when irate foot-soldiers stormed NDC headquarters, blocking the party leadership from entering the place. He called the bluff of the President's order to dismiss him as he held on to his position, with the National Security Co-ordinator rushing to his rescue with a testimonial attesting to his commitment as an operative of his department. When he finally made the exit from Tema, Carl Wilson continued to work at the National Security Secretariat until the game was up for him and he had to bow out. Source: Daily Guide