Mrs Justina Nelson, the CEO of the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF), has summoned a few media editors to Christian Tetteh Yohuno, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), for alleged defamatory articles about problems at the state-owned organization.
According to the information acquired, she asked the IGP to look into the editors of recent media reports regarding her stewardship at MIIF.
The publications focused on her decision to withhold the publishing of MIIF’s 2024 audited financial statement and her request for the Auditor-General to re-audit the financial statement because she thought the fund’s audited financials included errors.
The investigation is being led by the Special Operations Assistance (SOA), a division of the IGP office.
Mr. Ernest Addo, the editor of the New Crusading Guide, has been invited thus far, and on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, he accepted the invitation with the assistance of his attorney and Abdul-Malik Kwaku Baako, the paper’s founder and publisher.
Following a similar invitation, the SOA unit also questioned broadcast journalist Wilberforce Asare for almost two and a half hours on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at the Police CID office.
A copy of the petition was obtained by Mr Asare’s solicitors, Dame and Partners, before to his appearance.
Mrs. Nelson said in the petition that the articles, which targeted MIIF and her on social media and conventional media, were “persistent, false, malicious, and coordinated.”
She argues that the campaign against her started soon after she was appointed on January 15, 2025, and that it got worse over time, eroding public trust in MIIF and upsetting her both personally and professionally.
Wilberforce Asare was also accused by Mrs. Nelson of pursuing the release of the 2024 financial statements and purportedly asking her to publicly acknowledge the previous administration or pay GH₵100,000 to stop additional publicity. She called this demand excessive and unethical.
She claimed that as a result of these acts, she and her family have experienced excessive public scrutiny, worry, and reputational damage.
However, based on the facts acquired, Mr. Asare has refuted the accusations, calling them wholly untrue.
In his petition, the MIIF CEO asks the police to take a number of actions, such as calling journalists in for interrogation, directing the removal of deceptive publications, issuing official retractions, and looking into possible extortion or organised disinformation.
In a similar incident, Mrs. Nelson has sued six newspapers, including The Daily Searchlight, The Source, The Custodian, Ghanaian Publisher, The Daily Gist, and The New Crusading Guide, as well as three editors, Ken Kuranchie, Wilberforce Asare, and Daniel Bampoe, for slander.
She is requesting formal retractions and apologies, GH₵10 million in damages, and a permanent injunction to stop future defamatory publications.
Mrs. Nelson claimed in her statement of claim that the defendants made “libellous statements falsely alleging her involvement in financial mismanagement and coercion of the Auditor-General” on November 26, 2025.
She said that the media’ portrayals of her as fabricating numbers, manipulating official documents, and pressuring state institutions were false, spiteful, and meant to harm her reputation.
The statement said, “The defendants deliberately orchestrated the defamation campaign, knowing its falsity or recklessly disregarding the truth, with the intention of causing substantial reputational harm to me.”
The public and media will be keenly monitoring developments in what has turned into a high-profile legal and reputational war between MIIF and its CEO while the investigations and court procedures continue.
Source: newsthemegh.com