Private legal practitioner Lawyer Quayson has advised Political Science Lecturer Professor Ransford Gyampo against taking any legal action against his colleague lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr George Domfeh, following the heated clash between the two men on TV3.
Speaking in an interview on Okay FM, November 17, 2025, the lawyer said that Prof Gyampo should opt to settle the issues that came up during the argument out of court and treat them as things that came up as a result of anger.
He warned that if care is not taken, the sexual harassment allegations that came up years ago against Prof Gyampo, which were captured in the BBC’s Sex for Grades documentary, might resurrect, and this might affect his career.
“One lady has come out less than 24 hours after his notice. If we wait for 2 or 3 days, you have no idea how many ladies will be willing to come out, and his issue will resurrect and might even lead to him losing his job because sexual allegations are not treated with kid gloves… We say someone sleeps with children; are university students not children?
“Sometimes they blame me, saying I don’t want to make money because I keep resolving every issue. As lawyers, we make a living from cases. But while you are making a living, make sure you are not embarrassing someone. It is your client who is going to suffer; you use wisdom as a lawyer. It is not every case that you must file; you are rather exposing your client,” he said.
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Lawyer Quayson said that Prof Gyampo should learn from the case of the late Ghanaian music icon Daddy Lumba, which blew out of proportion because it was taken to court.
“There are so many people who didn’t listen to the show two days ago, but you, the lawyer, writing has made it an issue… We are not even discussing Dr Domfeh, but it is the lawyers writing that we are discussing.
“I blame the lawyers to begin with, but it is better late than never. In the case of Daddy Lumba, it is because lawyers wrote that we have the issues we are seeing today. So, with this case too, we should learn some lessons from Lumba’s case and work behind the scenes to kill the issue. If not, if one lady can come out in just one day, imagine the number in two or three days or even a week,” he added.
Prof Gyampo, the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Shippers Authority, initiated legal action against Dr George Domfeh, demanding an immediate retraction and apology for what he considers defamatory statements, after the ugly fight between the two men.
The Shippers Authority boss, through his lawyers, claimed that Dr Domfeh had defamed him by claiming that he sleeps with “under-age girls.”
They therefore asked Dr Domfeh to apologise and retract his statement or face legal action.
Watch the ugly fight between Prof Gyampo, Dr Domfeh on national television
About the incident:
The two lecturers at the University of Ghana came under heavy criticism after a video of them trading insults went viral on social media.
In the video circulating on November 15, 2025, a lecturer at the Political Science Department and CEO of the Ghana Shippers Authority, Professor Ransford Gyampo, is seen in a heated altercation with Dr George Domfeh, also a senior lecturer at UG.
In the less-than-one-minute footage, the two lecturers, who appeared on TV3’s The Key Points show, were seen exchanging insults after their discussion turned personal.
Dr Domfeh, while making his submission, was heard alleging that Prof Gyampo is politically biased, accusing him of being self-centred during his tenure as UG-UTAG president.
“Nobody is more political than Prof Gyampo. Everything about you is political. When you were UTAG president, look at what you did… Shame on you,” he said.
Prof Gyampo, who appeared visibly upset, fired back and accused Dr Domfeh of being unfit as an academic.
“I am political about what?… You are not an academic. Shame on you. What you are doing is shameful,” Gyampo retorted.
Another video circulating on Facebook shows the two lecturers in a near-fistfight, with Dr Domfeh heard making further allegations against Prof Gyampo, including claims about inappropriate conduct with students. These allegations remain unverified and were made during the altercation.
“You are a fool. You are a professor who sleeps with children,” Domfeh alleged.
Watch a video of his remarks below:
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