Empress Gifty sues Agradaa for defamation; demands GH₵20 million in damages – Nsemkeka
Ghanaian gospel musician Gifty Oppong Adorye, known in showbiz as Empress Gifty, has sued Evangelist Patricia Asiedu (Nana Agradaa) of Heavens Way Church for making defamatory statements about her.
In a writ of summons sighted by myjoyonline.com, Empress Gifty is demanding 20 million cedis from the traditional priest-turned-pastor in damages.
According to the writ, the Plaintiff (Empress Gifty) says that on 13th May 2025 the Defendant (Nana Agradaa) who seems to have a disagreement with the Plaintiff’s husband (Hopeson Adorye) took to her social media handles (Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube) and in a live broadcast and attacked the Plaintiff’s husband. She further spoke the following words defamatory of the Plaintiff in Twi language with its respective English translation stated below:
Twi: “wo tuutuuni yere no mpo wo bu no, wo yere odwamanfoo no mpo wo bu no, nkraman ne wo yere da tafri wo yere twe mu di sika bre wo.”
English: “You even respect your promiscuous wife, you respect even that wife of yours who is a prostitute, your wife flirts with dogs, dogs lick your wife’s vagina, that is how she makes money to cater for you.”
Twi: “osofoo biara a, obeto nsa afro wo yere ako alter, ne no da wo Office ha ansa na w’aba abeto dwom wo asenka agua so.”
English: “pastors who invite your wife to sing have sexual intercourse with her in their offices before she mounts the pulpit to sing.
Twi: “Woyere no, oyefo sene obiara, adwaman nti Asofoo ne no de da. wo agyae no, rebetaetae me.”
English: “You left your cheap prostitute wife that have sexual intercourse with pastors, to attack me.”
Twi: “Wo nkwaseasem no a, wode lea wo yere kwasea no so no, Me nnye toy te se wo yere no, me nnyi me hwene te se wo yere, Wo yere no a, ne twe adane asofoo no bi chop bar bowl.”
English: “I’m not a toy like your wife, I have not repositioned my nose like your wife, do not extend the foolish things you do to her to me Your wife’s vagina has become a common eating bowl for some pastors.”
The writ further indicates that “in their natural and ordinary meaning the words complained of in paragraph 9 were understood to mean that:
a) The Plaintiff is promiscuous and a prostitute.
b) The Plaintiff is a zoophile, who flirts with dogs to earn her money to cater for her husband.
c) The Plaintiff is an adulterous or an unchaste wife who has extra marital affairs, with other men and that most of her paramours are pastors.
d) Pastors who invite the Plaintiff to their programs have sexual inter course with her in their offices before Plaintiff mounts the pulpit to sing.
e) The Plaintiff is an imbecile.
Empress Gifty (the Plaintiff) also avers that the live broadcast made by the Defendant afforded other social media bloggers the opportunity to take the feed to their followers contemporaneously.”
The ‘Watch Me’ singer says the defamatory words spoken and published by the Nana Agradaa of her, is on the internet worldwide, and being widely circulated on various news portals and social media platforms in which the Plaintiff continue to be on the receiving end of severe and disdainful backlash.
She further indicates that the widespread effect of the Defendant’s words on the Plaintiff is that she has become the subject of discussion on media outlets locally and internationally and has affected her children who are taunted and ridiculed by their mates in school.
The lawyers say as a result of Nana Agradaa’s actions, the credit and reputation of Empress Gifty, both personal and public have seriously been damaged and have brought same into public ridicule, scandal, odium and contempt.
They also highlight that the Plaintiff who is a brand ambassador to numerous companies as indicated has suffered collateral damage.
Consequently, Empress’s lawyers aver that her international programme slated for August 2025 has been affected due to the words uttered by Nana Agradaa about her.
As a result of this, Empress Gifty is claiming against the defendant the sum of Twenty Million Ghana Cedis (GHS20,000,000.00) for damages for slander and libel of Plaintiff by the Defendant.
She is also requesting for an order of perpetual injunction to restrain the Defendant, her servants, agents, privies, assigns howsoever from publication of such words or any of them or similar words to that effect.
The gospel singer also wants an order for the Defendant to pull down all the videos, audios in which she spoke the words defamatory of the Plaintiff from all her social media handles.