The government will act after the investigation of Nat'S Security – Oppong Nkrumah

Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, said his government is waiting for National Security's internal investigations into the arrest of two journalists on the modernghana.com online news portal before to pronounce officially on the subject.

The government has been sharply criticized, calling for the dismissal or resignation of the national security minister, Albert Kan-Dapaah, because of his silence on the arrest and alleged torture of journalists .

Although the National Security Council Secretariat admitted the arrest of the journalists, it denied the allegations of torture.

But in what appears to be a clarification of the Citi Breakfast Show, Oppong Nkrumah insisted that the surest way to get to the bottom of things is to allow National Security to conduct its own investigations.

He badured that the government would intervene if preliminary inquiries were not satisfactory.

"… To the extent that there are a number of discrepancies in the story told, the primary body responsible for determining whether these accounts are correct or whether certain standard operating procedures or human rights have been violated is the Secretariat of the National Security Council. Obviously, they may have to conduct their own internal investigation to establish the truth of the matter and determine the next stage. There is not much that has come out and I want to believe that it is an exercise in progress and that if they find something boring, they can go to the next level. "

"For all these agencies, you leave an internal investigation. That's when the preliminary comments you get from this survey do not make sense and you go to the next level … From what I got, their internal investigation did not end and that's why they have requested validation of the medical report. In the end, we all understand better what happened, "he added.

It appears that the arrest of the two journalists is related to the publication of an article criticizing the Minister of National Security, Albert Kan Dapaah.

But the two men were initially charged with conspiracy to steal, steal and unauthorized access to electronic information after claiming to have hacked into other media companies.

Although they were brought to justice, the prosecution subsequently withdrew the charges to allow further investigations.

Attacks on uneducated journalists

While expressing total disgust at the continued attacks on journalists and the apparent loss of Ghana's freedom of the press powers, the Minister of Information suggested that the government was already consulting with stakeholders to to find a viable way to solve the problem.

"It is a little worrying that more and more incidents of journalists are being attacked. We do not know about our culture in this country. There should be an underlying [factor] but fortunately we are in contact with other stakeholders to look for ways to find common ground for some of these issues and to implement them. "