Bulldog sues Shatta Wale for defamation
ARTISTE Manager, Nana Asiamah Hanson popularly known as Bulldog has sued Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale for alleging he has a hand in the death of Fennec Okyere, also an artiste manager who was murdered in 2014.
The defamation suit comes after Shatta Wale who used to be managed by Bulldog last week threatened to expose the latter in an alleged involvement in Fennec Okyere’s death.
Shatta Wale had put out the allegation in a social media post on Wednesday, November 2, 2022.
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Fennec's murder is yet to be solved by the police. His case had been added to the cold cases of the Ghana Police Service until Shatta Wale’s comment revived it in the public domain last week.
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Bulldog in a writ filed on Monday, November 7, 2022, argues that, Shatta Wale had repeatedly gone public with claims damaging his reputation and connecting him to the murder of Fennec Okyere who until hios death managed rapper Kwaw Kese.
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Bulldog is therefore seeking a court order for Shatta Wale to retract the defamatory statements and apologise without reservation for eight days.
He is also requesting special and punitive damages against his former artiste for the publication.
Background
In the last few weeks, Bulldog and Shatta Wale had publicly given a hint on their simmering sour relationship when Bulldog claimed Black Sherif’s album, The Villian I Never Was will do better than Shatta’s new Gift of God album.
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The two had engaged in war of words on social media but things got to a boiling point when Shatta Wale insinuated that Bulldog had a hand in the death of Kwaw Kese’s late manager.
The post attracted lots of attention on social media with Kwaw Kese making a passionate appeal to the police to get Shatta Wale and Bulldog assist in investigations of the murder of his murdered manager.
The police later in a statement indicated that they had contacted Shatta Wale over his social media comments.
Attached below is a portion of the writ
