Private legal practitioner Ace Anan Ankomah has initiated moves to enforce the judgment he won against social media commentator, Kevin Ekow Baidoo Taylor in a defamation suit in February 2020.
Mr Ankomah won his defamation suit against Kevin Taylor, with the Accra High Court ordering Taylor to pay a total of GH¢2.95 million in damages.
Kevin Taylor had been out of the jurisdiction until recently.
On Saturday, August 2, 2025, and following an Order for substituted service granted by the court, giving Mr Ankomah the leave to serve Kevin Taylor with the Entry of judgment and Penal Notice by Substituted Service by a one time-publication half page graphic publication in the Daily Graphic Newspaper, Mr Ankomah went ahead with the publication, that indicates that Kevin Taylor has been served with the judgment.
Mr Ankomah had sued Taylor and his firm, Loud Silence Media and demanded GH¢10 million as damages for dragging his name in the mud.
Kevin Taylor, through his productions company, ‘Loud Silence’, had released weekly video documentaries dubbed ‘With All Due Respect’ on controversial issues which were then circulated on social media platforms.
He accused Mr Ankomah in one of his videos of allegedly being involved in a scheme by a Dubai-based minerals firm, and some top members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government of planning to destroy the CEO of embattled Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah also known as NAM1.
Mr Ankomah subsequently filed the defamation suit, and said the allegations made against him were malicious and had brought his hard-earned reputation into “hatred, ridicule, Obloquy, discredit, contempt, vilification, reproach, great distress and emotional trauma”.
The Accra High Court presided over by Justice Kweku T. Ackaah-Boafo on Monday, February 24, 2020 gave judgment and ordered the United States-based Kevin Taylor to pay the damages for defamatory comments made on his social media programme dubbed ‘With All Due Respect’.
Mr Ace Ankomah was represented in court by Mr Thaddeus Sory with Marie-Nicole Poku.
Mr Taylor on his part was, however, absent and was also not represented in court.
He has also not been seen in Ghana for a long time until recently.
Order for substituted service
On July 30, 2025, Mr Ankomah through a deponent filed in support of a Motion Ex-parte to serve Kevin Taylor with the Notice of Entry of the judgment delivered on February 24, 2020, and filed on June 2, 2025.
The Court therefore granted leave to serve Kevin Taylor with the Entry of judgment and Penal Notice by Substituted Service by a one time-publication half page graphic publication in the Daily Graphic Newspaper.
The breakdown of the damages are General Damages of GH¢2,000,000; Aggravated Damages of GH¢500,000; and Exemplary Damages of GH¢400,000.
The court also ordered a perpetual injunction to restrain the publication of further material and asked the defendants to publish apology within 14 days as well as a mandatory injunction compelling defendants to remove offending material within 14 days; and costs of GH¢50,000
The court described Taylor’s comments as “cavalier” and said that when the plaintiff [Ace Anan Ankomah] called his bluff and dared him by suing him, Taylor did not “have the cojones to respond” in spite of him [Taylor] creating the impression of being able to appear anywhere to defend his “bombastic video.”
The court held that it had jurisdiction in the matter because, although the defendants are outside Ghana, the defamatory matter was intended to be shared in Ghana, received considerable interest in Ghana, was downloaded in Ghana where the plaintiff has ties, and that injury to the plaintiff in Ghana was foreseeable.
The court further held that it was the proper forum and had jurisdiction.
In awarding that extent of damages, the court took into consideration how widely the video’s “outrageous and malicious” contents were circulated, the insults to the plaintiff by other persons following the publication of the matter (naming some of those persons), Taylor’s “malevolence,” “spite,” and his “reprehensible conduct” and “egregious conduct” and held that, that “offends the court’s sense of decency.”
Source: Graphic Online
