Salam Mustapha, the National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has issued an apology to Prof. Ransford Gyampo of the University of Ghana (UG) Political Science department.
Mustapha had accused the university don of among other things acting in ways that could disenfranchise students, attacking Gyampo of also taking advantage of female students.
In a statement issued on November 1, 2024, Mustapha said that he is apologising for the claims he made because he has no evidence to prove them.
“On Monday, 28th October 2024, I issued a press statement that alleged that Prof Gyampo was working with the NDC to disenfranchise students, using the UTAG strike action as a decoy. I also indicated that Prof Gyampo was doing so because of an assurance of political appointment in a future NDC government. Finally, I alleged that Prof Gyampo has an international reputation for sleeping with students and changing their grades.
“Lawyers of Prof Gyampo have subsequently engaged me and drawn my attention to the defamatory nature of the contents of my press release. 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,” he wrote.
He concluded, “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.”
