Sarkodie is a Ghanaian rapper
Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie’s lawsuit against Ecobank Ghana PLC for allegedly using the image of someone who looks like him in a campaign without his consent has been adjourned.
According to 3Music TV, the Accra High Court has pushed the case to July 25, 2025.
Sarkodie filed the suit in March 2025 after Ecobank launched an anti-fraud campaign that he believes misrepresented him.
The campaign, which was part of the bank’s #ItsGivingScam initiative, featured Sarkodie’s look-alike and the caption accompanying the campaign was “Looks can be deceiving.”
Sarkodie and his legal team argued that the campaign gave the false impression that he was part of it, which could confuse the public, especially since he is a brand ambassador for First National Bank, a rival financial institution.
The suit demands that Ecobank stop using the image without his approval, remove all campaign materials linked to it, and compensate him for the violation of his intellectual property rights.
News of the lawsuit went public in April 2025 and sparked reactions both online and offline.
Not long after, there were reports suggesting Sarkodie had reached out to Ecobank to withdraw the case, but the bank allegedly declined.
Sarkodie’s legal team denied those claims, describing them as baseless and uninformed.
In a statement issued by the Robert Smith Law Group, the legal representatives of Sarkodie, they clarified that Sarkodie had not asked them to withdraw the suit and explained that under civil law, a plaintiff does not need the defendant’s permission to drop a case.
“We have not received instructions from our client to withdraw the suit [and] we have taken no steps to withdraw the suit. The ignorance and malice of these infantile publications are betrayed by the fact that in civil proceedings, the Plaintiff does not need the consent of the defendant to discontinue the action if the Plaintiff has not been served with the Statement of Defence,” the statement said.
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