Member of Parliament for Asawase in the Ashanti Region has filed a suit against the Daily Guide following a publication he had married a minor.
Muntaka Mubarak is seeking a 600,000 cedis in damages over the report and an apology from the paper.
The newspaper in its Monday May 14,2012 edition alleged the MP got married to a 17 year old girl over the weekend.
But the MP in an interview with Joy News confirmed getting married but not to a minor.
He said he is a law maker and would not violate the law.
He has subsequently filed a suit at a High Court for damages.
A writ of summons, a copy of which is available to Joy News named the defendants as Morgan Owusu, a reporter at Daily Guide, Fortune Alimi, the editor of Daily Guide, Halifax Ansah Addo, Editor in charge at News One and Western Publications, Publishers of Daily Guide.
Muntaka Mubarak is also seeking cost and to restrain Daily Guide from any further publications of the defamatory matter.
Source: Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
