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I read an article on the Starrfmonline portal that was sent to a colleague of the profession, Mr. Amin Lamptey, who decided to reduce the journalistic investigation records of Anas Aremeyaw Anas to religious interpretations
. and so, with all due respect, will refrain from trying to interpret the Qur'anic verses; I quoted an answer from another Islamist journalist to counter Senior Lamptey anyway. However, the first question to drop in my thinking hat after reading the article was; What does religion have to do with investigative journalism?
Perhaps because Anas is a Muslim, but Kwesi Nyantakyi is also a Muslim who should have motivated Anas to hide his works to avoid hurting a Muslim brother, yet he went from the front and professionally discharged his duties to discover the stinking rot that ate deeply in our football game. What is the advantage of being Muslim, Christian or traditionalist without helping to clean society of various negative activities? (This is not what I intend to achieve though.)
I suggest we must be able to decouple the ethics of journalism beliefs religious; Mr. Lamptey as a journalism student should have measured Anas' work with the ethical principles of the profession. It is to check the basics if investigative journalism is real, licensed and practiced worldwide; if so, where was Anas wrong?
Lamptey should have checked the modus operandi in the investigation rooms; where the investigator can simulate and play a role in a syndicate to expose them, can delegate an agent to hang in a syndicate for information or may lure the perpetrators of everything that seems to be a good point of contact to expose them . I think this has always been the style of Anas which is an investigative technique used worldwide by world-renowned security agencies like the CIA, KGB, FBI and others [19659002]. with investigative journalism, ethics and legality should be the basis for weighing the works of Anas; and it is these two elements are the only tools that can be used to expose any weakness in investigative journalism. I will ask my older brother Lamptey to be wary of profession and religion; do not do anything that can paint Black Anas to the Muslim community that could possibly discourage him from adding his value to the cleansing of society.
We live by the law and rule by law and seek justice by law; Ghana is neither a Christian country nor an Islamic country that must be governed by religious beliefs. I hope and pray that other people like Anas can come up to help discover the rots in the system. There is an adage that says, "You do not run when you have nothing to hide."
May we have more understanding when we share ideas as responsible citizens.
Regards
KB Ansah
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