Murder of an investigator: it's time to say that's enough – Ken Ashigbey

General News of Saturday, January 19th, 2019

Source: Myjoyonline.com

2019-01-19

Media rights advocate Kenneth Ashigbey urges media owners to take a strategic approach to curb increasing attacks on media professionals in the country.

"It's time you [media organisations] I woke up to say that was enough … we need institutions like the Media Commission, we need institutions like the GJA [Ghana Journalists Association] take a strategic reaction and stifle that in the bud, "said Friday January 18 Ghana, Director General of the Chamber of Telecommunications of Ghana.

His comments follow the horrific murder of Ahmed Hussein-Suale, a key member of Tiger Eye P.I, a private investigative company owned by underground journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.

He was shot in the chest and once in the neck Wednesday night in Madina, Accra, while he was going to the hospital to see his sick child.

He was buried on Friday, January 18, according to Islamic custom.

The late Hussein-Suale was a key member of the team that produced the # Number12 documentary that exposes the rottenness in football on the African continent.

The former general manager of the state-owned newspaper, Daily Graphic, said it was time that Ghanaian media owners and directors say "No" to the series of attacks. unjustified against journalists for doing their job.

"We have been talking for too long as journalists," his media rights activist Evans Mensah said.

"We have to bring together companies that want to pose as media … because in the end, it's the people who are trying to do a good job who are beaten," he said.

Other participants in the program included Richard Kumado, fraud and security badyst; Director of AA productions, Esther Armah; Ebo Quansa, managing director of The Ghanian Chronicle newspaper, as well as investigative journalist at Multimedia Group, Manbadeh Azure Awuni.