There are indications that Deputy Finance Minister, Mr. Fifi Kwetey may sue Western Publications Ghana Ltd., publishers of the Daily Guide newspaper. Daily Guide last week published claims the deputy minister’s wife was involved in an unwholesome deal at The Trust Bank where she is the Business Manager for Institutional Banking. The paper has since reported another version of the story saying contrary to its earlier report, Mrs. Naomi Kwetey, the minister’s wife was not involved in the deal at the bank in which some retiring managers were paid about GHS10 million each in redundancy packages. “Even though top managers of The Trust Bank (TTB) paid themselves GH¢9.8 million as redundancy package due to the takeover of the bank by Ecobank, Naomi Kwetey, wife of a deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning did not receive any payment, as earlier reported,” explained the paper. Her lawyers have written a rejoinder to the article and are demanding a retraction and apology, but sources close to the deputy minister hinted Myjoyonline.com the case may not end even with the retraction and apology. “The Deputy Minister believes he was the prime target of the original publication just so they could throw some mud at him and the government in which he serves and which the Daily Guide opposes. He believes so because there was no basis whatsoever for his wife’s name let alone his own name to have featured in that publication and it tells in the haste with which they rushed to publish the story without as much as talking to even the wife they accused of involvement,” the source said. "If you follow their publications, you get a clear picture the deputy minister has been their target for a while. In 2009 the same paper fabricated a story about him pursuing a Masters programme at a UK university which they said required him to travel every now and then to the UK, and the story sought to suggest that he was doing so at the expense of the taxpayer when no such thing existed. That perception still persist and many believe the deputy minister is schooling outside." "He is determined to end the scurrilous attacks on him once and for all, that I can assure you." When reached over the phone for confirmation of any such threat against the newspaper, the deputy minister expressed surprise that his intention was already in the media but asked that all questions be directed at the lawyers handling the matter, Oasis Law Consult. Indeed in the rejoinder by the lawyers, they serve notice that “Reading the opening paragraph of your article, it became blindingly obvious to our client (and indeed to all reasonable persons that would have read the article) that what was at stake was not simply a question of regular and ordinary journalistic duties but a matter of giving the dog a bad name and hanging it by well calculated untruths. In fact, our client strongly believes the aim of the article is to attempt to collectively damage her reputation and by extension that of her husband and the government in which he serves.” They further serve notice in the concluding paragraph of the rejoinder of their client’s right to take further action to redeem her image thus; “Kindly be informed that our client reserves the right to take any and every appropriate step to protect and defend her reputation from irresponsible and reckless claims.”