Waste Managers Zoomlion Ghana Limited have, through their lawyers, ordered Joy FM and Myjoyonline.com to stop further publication of serialized investigative reports questioning some contracts it entered into with the government. According to Kwame Gyan and Associates, Lawyers acting for and on behalf of Zoomlion, the publications have defamed their client as well as its owner, Mr. Joseph Siaw Agyapong, and brought his character and credit “into public scandal, odium and contempt”. Joy News' investigations in the last couple of weeks, into the operations of the National Youth Employment Programme, now Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (GYEEDA) suggested dissipation of public funds through contracts entered into by Zoomlion and GYEEDA. Manasseh investigated the Youth in Sanitation module, which GYEEDA runs in partnership with Zoomlion Ghana Limited and revealed that while government pays GHS 500 per beneficiary every month, out of that, only GHS 100 is paid to the beneficiaries with Zoomlion keeping the rest of the GHS 400, as management fees. The publications have resulted in the government commissioning investigations into the allegations. However, Lawyers for Zoomlion Ghana Limited wrote to Multimedia Group Limited, the parent company of Joy FM and Myjoyonline.com on May 28, 2013, ordering the two media outlets to “restrain themselves from further publishing the said defamatory words failing which our Client shall not hesitate to haul your organization before the law Court for redress”. Click to read the five-page letter from Kwame Gyan and Associates to MGL>/a>.

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