Drama on cybercrime: I've learned to lie – A journalist from modern Ghana

General News of Monday, July 8, 2019

Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

2019-07-08

One of the two reporters in modern Ghana, Emmanuel Britwum, who denied an allegation of torture, revealed coaching sessions and encouraged to "lie" about their short detention period to embarrbad the National Security Council secretariat. and his agents.

Shortly after the "history of torture" bent over by his colleague Emmanuel Ajarfor Abubakar Abugri was uploaded to the media space, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) published a statement demanding that the Minister of National Security, Kan Dapaah, resigns position.

This is the latest in a series of developments that have affected the history of beheaded torture and the clearest efforts by some hidden forces to advance the agenda of "torture".

Emmanuel Britwum, who had previously denied hiring A-Partners @ Law as a lawyer, said he had learned a lot about how people "are trying to take advantage of the situation to defend their interests. personal. "

Video and audio secret

He expressed surprise at secretly recorded audio and video recordings of how he was tortured and even electrocuted with electric guns by National Security agents during their brief incarceration.

He charged the strangers who had secretly recorded this video to be courageous and broadcast the full recording so that the public would know about the intrigues, coaching and orchestrated behind-the-scenes productions that I've decided to stay away, although I know it would cost me my job. "

He added that when the band was heard in full, viewers would see how a lawyer was defending a program that would prompt him to change his official statements to the police to give the impression that he had been badaulted tortured and electrocuted by national security agents.

Media Agenda

He added that if the tape was not tampered with, it would clearly show how he was trained to ensure that their statements do not differ in content so that the torture story seems credible.

"Let it show why I did not agree to go on Citi Morning Show and other media networks," he accused.

Public friendliness

He added that an unpublished video would also show how he was made to believe that he had to play and win the sympathy of the public, otherwise he would be forced to carry his own cross without a lawyer.

Family solidarity

Emmanuel Britwum expressed his gratitude to his family who, after explaining to him how he had been asked to lie for support, had told him that he did not need to lie to get him. help and legal representation.

Having finally found a lawyer with his family, a lawyer who, he said, was going to stick to the facts and not push him to sell his conscience; it was not necessary to be used to pursue the agenda of others.

He clarified that although he had actually been tortured, he would have expressed it from the first day of his release, adding: "I would have stated in my official statement to the police".

He slightly touched on the late announcement of an act of torture stating, "I would not have waited for days that my supervisor would take me privately with some people and ask me to tell them something that he and I never know never happens to me. . "

Populist drama

He said that he was fed up with what he said was a populist drama and that he would not want to be part of it anymore. If his position costs him his job, so be it, he added.

He is convinced that the business can be won without embellishing it with additions that would win the public's sympathy.

He added that the arrest, detention and charges made no sense to him and concluded that "the truth is true. It's just a matter of time. "

Claims and counterclaims

Emmanuel Britwum and A-Partners @ Law have engaged in an exchange of claims and counterclaims.

While the law firm claims to have removed its services to Emmanuel Britwum, the latter stated that he had never hired the firm anyway.

Speaking about his lawyer, Debora Asabere Ameyaw, he said, "This is a case for which I have never hired a law firm or any of its collaborators."

Emmanuel Britwum, Emmanuel Abubakari Ajarfor Abugri and later Peace FM's Yaw Obeng Manu were arrested for alleged hacking, but the Attorney General's department filed the case after their first court appearance.