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.
“You can take away one of us, but you can’t take away the spirit of the people.”
After his colleague was shot dead, Ghanaian journalist @anasglobal is determined to keep the reporting going. pic.twitter.com/JwZhqJShh2
— DW News (@dwnews) February 1, 2019
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.
.@Aufildubosphore uncovers death threats and sketches of the killers that have not been sufficiently used by the police. #AhmedSuale 4/5 pic.twitter.com/loPsRhRka6
— Forbidden Stories (@FbdnStories) January 16, 2020
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.”
You were killed in the pursuit of truth.
We will never forget.
We will fight till justice prevails.#Justice4Ahmed #JournalismIsNotACrime #SayNoToCorruption pic.twitter.com/ygh1VDTSoF— Anas Aremeyaw Anas (@anasglobal) January 16, 2020
All hope may seem lost for now in finding the killers of Ahmed but his surviving colleague journalists are not relenting in demanding justice.
I stand with you #JUSTICE4AHMED https://t.co/70oN274oUZ
— TheBebeng (@TheBebeng) January 16, 2020
May his death never be invain…#Justice4Ahmed #ghanarise
— Stephen Wonder Defor (@DeforWonder) January 16, 2020
Rest Well Ahmed Suale #Justice4Ahmed pic.twitter.com/LFqD5zZFk3
— Prof Abandi (@AbandiProf) January 16, 2020
It has been a year since the enemies of honest reporting killed this undercover journalist “Ahmed Hussein-Suale. We shall never be silenced as journalists, you kill one, hundreds are born.. RIP.. #Journalismnotcrime @anasglobal #Justice4Ahmed #SayNoToCorruption pic.twitter.com/JMpRkLTN8B
— Samuel-Baker Byansi (@Baker_Reports) January 16, 2020
Source: Africafeeds.com
