World Press Freedom: Murder Of Ahmed Suale Has Stain Ghana’s Reputation

The President of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA), Affail Monney has indicated that the murder of Ghanaian investigative journalist, Ahmed Suale is the most “heinous of circumstances” that has stained Ghana’s reputation as a land of freedom and justice.

He also revealed that the Police IGP, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare soon after his assumption as the Head of Ghana Police Service promised that a special unit to handle such unresolved cases will be established but has still not seen the light of the day.

“Three years on the spin, the assassination of Ahmed Suale of Tiger Eye fame in the most heinous of circumstances has been a stain on Ghana’s reputation as a land of freedom and justice, a citadel of media freedom, and a beacon of democratic accomplishment in Africa. Assurance upon assurance of arresting the perpetrators has remained hollow rhetoric”.

“Soon after his appointment last year, we received with hope the announcement by the IGP Dr. George Akuffo Dampare that a special unit had been established by the police to handle all such unresolved cases of brutalities against journalists. That hope is wobbling”, he added.

Ahmed Suale was a Ghanaian undercover investigative journalist and an associate of fellow Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. He died on Wednesday, 16 January 2019 when unidentified men on motorbikes shot him three times, twice in the chest and once in his neck in his vehicle.

When Tiger Eye aired its latest investigation, which exposed widespread corruption in African football, Ghanaian MP Kennedy Agyapong began a campaign of hostility against the team, saying he was offended by its undercover methods. He called publicly for Anas to be hanged. Weeks after the film was screened, in June last year, he used his own TV station to attack Hussein-Suale and expose the journalist’s most closely guarded secret – his face.

Source: Opemsuo.com/ Emmanuel Owusu Anti