General News of Monday, 3 January 2022
Source: www.ghanaweb.live
2022-01-03‘Scale up investigations to expose, prosecute killers of Ahmed Suale’ – GJA urges police
Murdered investigative journalist, Ahmed Suale
Ahmed Suale shot dead three years ago by unknown assailants
Known journalist's murder remains unresolved
Family say they will not relent in seeking justice
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) is once again urging the Police to do more to find the killers of private investigator Ahmed Suale.
Speaking to JoyNews on the sidelines of a GJA/UNESCO
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“We are overly worried that three years along the line, nothing has been done to expose, let alone deal surgically with the perpetrators of this heinous crime.
“We were promised by the President last year that the perpetrators will be found. Early on, there had been such promises that the Police were closing in the criminals, but nobody has been arrested as we speak.
“This is one causal factor which tends to cause us to slip with decline on the league table of free media systems in Africa and the world. We expect our law and order community to scale up the efforts to expose the killers of Ahmed Suale and make them stand trial and if they are found guilty, they should taste the bitter end of the law,” Mr Monney appealed.
Ahmed Suale, who was with the Tiger Eye Private Investigations, was shot dead three years ago near his family home in Madina.
He was shot three times, twice in the chest and another in the neck by unidentified men while he was driving home.
The murder came shortly after the release of the ‘Number-12′ documentary by Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ Tiger Eye PI.
Before the murder, the Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong, had reportedly incited people to attack the journalist.
The murder has since remained unresolved though government promised to remain resolute in seeking justice for Mr Suale.
The family of the late private investigator has also bemoaned the delay, stating that, no arrests have been made, “no one has been charged or prosecuted for the crime after over two years.”
They want authorities to speed up investigations, adding that the family will not relent on its efforts to seeking justice for the deceased.
“We are not going to be happy with whatever they [Police] tell us until they tell us that the people who committed the crime have been found.
“I don’t think it is a matter that we can put behind us. We will continue to ask for the perpetrators of Ahmed Suale’s murder,” they told JoyNews in an earlier interview last year.
