The New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Youth Organiser, Salam Mustapha, has rendered an unqualified apology to Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana (UG), Professor Ransford Gyampo.
This follows Mr. Mustapha’s allegations that Prof. Gyampo was working with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to disenfranchise students.
The claims were made on Monday, October 28, in the wake of the University Teachers Association of Ghana’s (UTAG) anti-galamsey strike.
The NPP Youth leader accused Prof. Gyampo, who is the UG-UTAG President, of using the strike as a decoy due to an appointment promised to him in a future NDC government.
After engaging with Prof. Gyampo’s legal team, Mustapha was made aware of the defamatory nature of these claims.
Acknowledging his error, he issued a retraction, stating, “Given that I have no evidence to back the allegations I made against Prof. Gyampo, I hereby retract and render an unqualified apology to him.”
In his apology, Mustapha emphasized his commitment to ensuring that the retraction is given the same level of publicity as the original statement.
“I am causing this retraction and apology to be published and be given the same prominence by all the media outlets that carried the contents of my Press Statement,” he declared, acknowledging the potential damage caused by the allegations.
