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Ghana: No signs of justice for murdered journalist Hussein-Suale

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It has been a year since the under-cover investigator and journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale who worked with ace investigative Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas was killed.

Hussein-Suale was reportedly killed by gunmen on his way home from work.

He was shot three times, twice in the chest and another in the neck in his car.

The young journalist had worked on the #Number12 expose’ on corruption in Ghana football which was considered a very sensitive story.

He died at the age of 31 leaving behind a wife and children.

Hussein-Suale’s death sparked anger among journalists and those who loved the kind of work he and his colleague Anas were doing.

No sight of justice

But a year after his murder, very little has been done to bring justice to him and his family.

Journalists in Ghana continue to come under attacks and threats for their work, so there were high hopes this incident will ensure that Suale’s killers would be found and punished.

At least to deter others from carrying out such an act in the future, but there are no signs the murdered journalist will get justice any time soon.

Although some arrests were made initially very little is known about the progress made so far into investigations.

Before Suale’s death his picture was brandished on National Television by a Member of Parliament of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the heat of the #Number12 expose’.

He received several death threats and although sketches of portraits of his killers have been shown to some eyewitnesses, very little has been done to deliver justice.

The signal this gives is that, very little will be done to protect journalists who continue to come under threat for their work.

Fight for justice

Anas has said in marking the death of his former colleague that he was “killed in the pursuit of truth. We will never forget. We will fight till justice prevails.”

All hope may seem lost for now in finding the killers of Ahmed but his surviving colleague journalists are not relenting in demanding justice.

 

Source: Africafeeds.com

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