Salam Mustapha, the National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has formally retracted and apologized for allegations made against Prof. Ransford Gyampo, a political science lecturer at the University of Ghana.
On October 28, 2024, Mustapha released a statement accusing Prof. Gyampo of using a University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) strike action to politically influence students in favor of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He also alleged that Prof. Gyampo was seeking a political appointment from the NDC and defamed his character by stating he had *“an international reputation for sleeping with students and changing their grades.”*
After discussions with Prof. Gyampo’s legal team, Mustapha acknowledged the defamatory nature of these claims. In response, he issued a retraction and apologized, 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.”
Mustapha further emphasized his commitment to ensuring that the retraction receives equal prominence as the initial 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, recognizing the potential harm caused by his previous claims.
