Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has justified publicly displaying pictures of slain investigative journalist, Ahmed Husein Suale and instigating attacks on him which eventually led to his gruesome murder.
According to Mr. Agyapong, the slain journalist and his boss, Anas Aremeyaw Anas used unethical mundus operandi to entrap and embarrassed high profile personalities particularly public officials in their investigations.
He said his action was to expose these unethical methods deployed by the two in their investigations and alert unsuspecting members of the public about their activities.
Mr. Agyapong claimed displaying the journalist’s picture on his Net2 TV saved Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, who was being set up by the duo.
Mr. Ofori-Atta, he stated, was on his way to a meeting arranged by the two as part of an investigation they had launched targeted at top officials of the Finance Ministry.
The investigation led by Mr. Suale had already implicated the then Deputy Finance Minister, Charles Adu Boahen and the Finance Minister was next in line.
However, after publicly showing their pictures and indicating what they were up to, Mr. Ofori-Atta was alerted and that saved him from being implicated.
“When I showed the face of Ahmed Suale, the Finance Minister was on his way to Dubai to meet them so the Minister of State, Adu Buahen called him and said ‘I have seen this on Net2. This is entrapment’. He actually met them and he snubbed them. They didn’t know it was Anas until I showed the face and connected Ahmed Suale to Anas”.
Ahmed Husein Suale, who worked with investigative firm, Tiger Eye PI, was shot dead, in January, 2019 at Madina in the Greater Accra Region.
This was after the Assin Central MP displayed his pictures on his TV and called on the public to beat him up.
But speaking in an interview on Citi TV, the legislator, who is vying for the NPP flagbearer position, denied that his call for the journalist to be attacked led to his gruesome murder.
He claimed he had only called for him to be attacked if he was found within the premises of his TV station as he believed he was up to no good.
“I said if he comes to my premises and I didn’t say go and beat him outside,” he defended.
