EX HIV AMBASSADOR JOYCE DZIDZOR SACKS LAWYER

Controversial ex-Ghanaian HIV/AIDS
ambassador, Joyce Dzidzor Mensah, has said
she has parted ways with her legal counsel over
public utterances about her mental health.
She said on Friday that she was no longer
represented by Lawyer Kojo Koranteng, and
that her decision was based on suspicions that
the lawyer was rather on an image recovery
mission for the Ghana AIDS Commission.
News One broke the news weeks ago that Dzidzor
said she lied about her HIV/AIDS status for
years and had never tested positive for the
disease before working with the Ghana AIDS
Commission as HIV/AIDS Ambassador.
She has since been on different media
platforms defending her actions, even though
she has received widespread criticisms by
Ghanaians.
Last week, her lawyer, Kojo Koranten reportedly
said that his “client should not be given the
needed attention in public space because she is
suffering from trauma and depression.”
But Dzidzor told News One that he should be
ignored.
According to her, “it looks like he’s doing an
image recovery for Ghana’s AIDS to make the
public to believe I am depressed; hence my
reason to come out.”
“I am not working with my lawyer anymore. I
spoke with the doctor to find out if she had any
discussion with the lawyer concerning my health,
and she said she hasn’t told him that I am
depressed. We started on a good note; for him
to have come out to declare that I’m depressed
and nobody should pay attention to me really
hit me. I think he is a lawyer and he is
supposed to handle my legal issues but not my
health issues. Even the doctor hasn’t said I’m
depressed. So I don’t think we can continue
working,” she added.