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Regional news for Sunday, January 17, 2021
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists
01/17/2021
Murdered journalist, Ahmed Hussein-Suale
The murder of Ahmed Hussein-Suale Divela two years ago sent a scary message.
This message was and continues to be that a journalist can be shot and killed in Ghana’s capital after working to uncover high level corruption, and no one will be held responsible.
Murder is the ultimate form of censorship. It seeks to silence the journalist and his reporting, to intimidate those who would continue their work and to replace clarity of purpose with fear.
Before his assassination, Hussein-Suale told CPJ he was aware of the threats against him and that those who sought to harm him were “associated with powers that are in Ghana and can do anything and get away with it.” “.
These words have echoed over the past two years in the absence of accountability.
Suale’s words also resonate with too many other instances where attacks on Ghanaian journalists have taken place with impunity.
It has been almost three years since police dragged journalist Latif Iddrisu to the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department in Accra and beat him.
Iddrisu has sued police and the attorney general in a case that will return to court on January 26, but the fact that the officers responsible have yet to be identified sends a message similar to Suale’s murder.
It is not too late to change the message of these attacks.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has not forgotten Ahmed Hussein-Suale and how no one was held responsible for his murder. Nor have we forgotten the violent beating of Latif Idrissu in 2018, nor the too many other journalists in Ghana who were harassed, assaulted or arrested for their work.
We know the Ghanaian press has not forgotten either, and together we will continue to call for justice.
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