Cures for former GTV anchors The political mischief of Rawlinsgs’ baby mama

File a GH₵10 million defamation lawsuit against Captain Smart. Selma Ramatu Al-Hassan, also known as Selma Valcourt, a former GTV News anchor at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), has sued media personality Blessed Godsbrain Smart, also known as “Captain Smart,” and his employers, Media General Ghana Limited, in the High Court with the intention of resolving long-standing political mischief. The lawsuit was brought in an Accra High Court on Wednesday, January 28, 2026, in response to purported remarks made by Captain Smart on November 28, 2025, during a television broadcast in which he accused the 71-year-old woman of having an unwed child with the late former President, Jerry John Rawlings.

She called the assertion “false.” Notably, Selma’s lifelong friend and classmate at the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), Kwesi Pratt, the Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, has frequently refuted the assertion over the years without success.Selma is the daughter of the illustrious Mrs. Susanna Al-Hassan, a writer, politician, and the first female minister appointed by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president.

Mrs. Al-Hassan served as the first female minister in Ghana, the first African woman to hold a cabinet position, and the member of parliament for the Northern Region seat at the time. In her defamation lawsuit against “Captain Smart,” Media General Ghana Limited, the CEO of Onua Television, and Onua TV, Selma is requesting GHC10 million.

According to the court statement, “the broadcast implied that the plaintiff had an illicit, adulterous, lustful, and immoral affair with former President Rawlings and had a child out of wedlock with him.” Selma said that the show was uploaded to the station’s website and was shared on social media and electronic media after it concluded on television.

She noted that the public’s “disparaging comments” were sparked by the online interaction, with some social media users apparently calling her “a woman with loose morals and a home breaker.” She claimed in her lawsuit that the broadcast had negatively impacted her reputation and image both domestically and abroad.According to the court filings, “the widely circulated broadcast has lowered the plaintiff in the estimation of right-thinking members of society and subjected her to public ridicule, odium, and opprobrium.”

She additionally claimed that the publishing resurrected terrible personal memories surrounding her only child from her genuine marriage to the late Alhaji Tijani Nagaya, who died in 2004 Additionally, the plaintiff accuses the defendants of acting intentionally, claiming that they knowingly allowed fake content to be broadcast and purposefully allowed it to trend online. It said, “The Defendants purposefully allowed the false broadcast to be televised, posted on their website, and go viral on social media in a manner that invited mostly disparaging comments from the general public.”

She is requesting a permanent injunction prohibiting the defendants from releasing similar content in the future, as well as a statement that the broadcast is defamatory. Additionally, she is requesting orders requiring the defendants to rescind the broadcast and publicly apologize three times on radio, television, and the internet with the same prominence as the original broadcast. The plaintiff also requests GH¢10 million in punitive damages for slander in addition to costs, including legal fees.

After the writ is served, the four defendants are required to attend within eight days; otherwise, a judgment may be rendered against them without their presence.