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Renowned Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas says immediate protection must be provided to all journalists who in one way or another have received death threats in the line of duty.
In a press release issued by Tiger Eye PI on January 1, Anas Aremeyaw Anas described such acts as “barbaric and backward”, for which all people must condemn them.
According to him, “it is a terrible thing to practice journalism in conditions like these, and it is even dangerous when nothing is done and the perpetrators manage to carry out their threats.”
Manasseh Azure Awuni, Edward Adeti, Afia Pokuaah, Captain Smart, Abdul Hayi Moomen, David Tamakloe, among many others, should be protected, he noted.
He believes that no journalist should have to go through the horrible ordeal suffered by Ahmed Suale, his former colleague at Tiger Eye.
“The murder of Ahmed Suale is still fresh in the minds of all journalists and supporters in this country. No journalist in the country can survive the bullets of their murderers if they ever become targets. “
Suale’s killers shot him point-blank in the neck and chest several times on the way home, he added.
He noted: “That is how good hit men are at their job and therefore must be controlled, tracked and detained whenever they threaten someone with death messages.”
Private investigation firm Tiger Eye has called on the government to condemn these death threats against the fourth arm of the government.
Anas Aremeyaw Anas has tasked all law enforcement agencies to proactively investigate the sources of death threats and arrest all perpetrators.
He added: “Security agencies should not be seen or used to perpetuate such attacks or intimidation.
“We call on the National Media Commission and the Ghana Journalists Association to do more, in particular to engage political parties and journalists engaged in public interest journalism.”
