Ace Anan Ankomah, a private attorney, has started the process of enforcing the verdict he obtained in a defamation lawsuit against Kevin Ekow Baidoo Taylor, a social media commenter, in February 2020.
Kevin Taylor was ordered to pay GH¢2.95 million in damages by the Accra High Court after Mr. Ankomah won his defamation lawsuit against him.
Until recently, Kevin Taylor was outside the jurisdiction.
Following a court-granted order for substituted service, which allowed Mr. Ankomah to serve Kevin Taylor with the entry of judgment and penal notice by substituted service through a one-time, half-page graphic publication in the Daily Graphic Newspaper, Mr. Ankomah proceeded with the publication on Saturday, August 2, 2025, confirming that Kevin Taylor had received the judgment.
Taylor and his company, Loud Silence Media, were sued by Mr. Ankomah, who sought GH¢10 million in damages for tarnishing his reputation.
Kevin Taylor produced weekly video documentaries on contentious topics under the title “With All Due Respect” through his production firm, Loud Silence. These movies were then shared on social media.
In one of his films, he accused Mr. Ankomah of participating in a plot by a Dubai-based minerals company and some influential members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration to assassinate Nana Appiah Mensah, commonly known as NAM1, the CEO of troubled Menzgold.
Mr. Ankomah thereafter filed the defamation lawsuit, claiming that the accusations were intentional and that they had caused “hatred, ridicule, Obloquy, discredit, contempt, vilification, reproach, great distress, and emotional trauma” to his hard-earned reputation.
On Monday, February 24, 2020, the Accra High Court, presided over by Justice Kweku T. Ackaah-Boafo, rendered a decision and mandated that Kevin Taylor, a U.S.-based individual, pay damages for defamatory remarks made on his social media program, “With All Due Respect.”
Marie-Nicole Poku and Mr. Thaddeus Sory represented Mr. Ace Ankomah in court.
However, Mr. Taylor was not there and did not have legal representation.
Until recently, he had likewise been absent from Ghana for a considerable amount of time.
In support of a Motion ex parte to serve Kevin Taylor with the Notice of Entry of the judgment given on February 24, 2020, and filed on June 2, 2025, Mr. Ankomah filed a deposition on July 30, 2025.
As a result, the court gave permission to use substituted service to deliver the entry of judgment and penal notice to Kevin Taylor. This was accomplished by publishing a half-page graphic in the Daily Graphic Newspaper once.
The damages are broken down as follows: GH¢2,000,000 for general damages, GH¢500,000 for aggravated damages, and GH¢400,000 for Exemplary damages.
Along with a mandatory injunction requiring the defendants to remove the offending material within 14 days and a perpetual injunction to prevent the publication of any such material, the court also awarded GH¢50,000 in costs.
Although Taylor gave the impression that he could appear anywhere to defend his “bombastic video,” the court characterized his remarks as “cavalier” and stated that Taylor did not “have the cojones to respond” when the plaintiff [Ace Anan Ankomah] called his bluff and dared him by suing him.
The court determined that it had jurisdiction over the case because, despite the defendants’ foreign location, the defamatory content was meant to be shared in Ghana, garnered a lot of interest there, and was downloaded there, where the plaintiff has connections, and the harm to the plaintiff there was predictable.
The court also ruled that it had jurisdiction and was the appropriate forum.
When determining the amount of damages, the court considered the extent to which the “outrageous and malicious” contents of the video were circulated, the insults that were directed at the plaintiff by others after the matter was published (naming some of those individuals), and Taylor’s “malevolence,” “spite,” “reprehensible conduct,” and “egregious conduct.” It concluded that this “offends the court’s sense of decency.”
Source: newsthemegh.com