Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, is facing a GH¢20 million defamation lawsuit filed by the Acting CEO of the Forestry Commission, Hugh Clement A. Brown.
Brown, who was appointed Acting Chief Executive in January 2025, says he had not assumed that role at the time of the documents in question—yet Abronye, during a July 10 broadcast on OHIA TV, accused him of authorising illegal forest deals and backdating letters to implicate the former NPP administration.
“If you backdate a letter to make it look like these events happened under the NPP regime, then you are engaging in forgery,” Abronye claimed on his programme The Evidence.
In response, Brown has dismissed the allegations as entirely false and damaging. His legal filing describes the broadcast as “malicious” and intended to paint him as a “fraudulent and dishonest public officer.”
The case, filed at the Accra High Court, demands GH¢15 million in general damages, GH¢5 million in exemplary damages, and a series of public retractions. Brown wants televised apologies on major networks including GTV, TV3, Joy TV, and OHIA TV, plus four weeks of print retractions in the Daily Graphic and digital apologies across OHIA TV’s platforms.
Mr. Brown, who has served the Forestry Commission since 1993 and holds a PhD in Tropical Forest Ecology, says his decades-long reputation is at stake.
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