Ahmed Hussein-Suale, a team member of Anas' Tiger Eye PI was gruesomely murdered Wednesday January 16, 2019 around 10 o'clock local time, while driving home at Medina in the capital Accra.

The undercover journo was shot three times, twice in the chest and once in the neck by unknown assailants.

His death has attracted mixed reactions, with some accusing Assin Central MP, Hon Kennedy Agyapong as the character behind the act because he had earlier released the identity of Ahmed and asked that the latter be killed. Others are also of the views that Police should thoroughly investigate Anas, the team leader himself.

Meanwhile, a Ghanaian philosopher and a lecturer with Spiritan University College in Ejisu, Kumasi - Mr Kombian Somtuaka Snr has been asking questions pertaining to the killing of Ahmed Suale; and revealed that the murder of the investigative reporter could never be established on a single fact.

According to him, “As painful as this murder is, there could be multiple causes of Suale's death.”

In a lengthy write-up posted on Facebook, Mr Somtuaka, also a former broadcast journalist opined that; indeed, Ahmed's death could be as a result of the exposure from the Assin Central lawmaker, Hon Agyapong which ignited “those affected by the work of Tiger Eye PI to strike, knowing fingers will obviously be pointed at he Ken.”

Somtuaka Snr also believes the deceased “had personal issues (completely unrelated to his work) with someone who decided to strike now.”

He however stated that there are over a million factors amounting to the killing to Ahmed Hussein which according to him, “we simply can't ignore any of them, neither can we focus on just one.”

Read the full write-up below:

Questions on Suale's Murder

Suale: An investigative Journalist with Tiger Eye PI who was key in the recent #12 Exposé which generated lots of controversies.

Investigative Journalism: this is one of the jobs associated with unimaginably high risks with dire security implications.

Ken Agyapong: You splashed the photos of Suale on cable TV, showed where he lives, asked people to beat him up wherever they see him especially when he shows up anywhere in the premises of your media houses, and that whatever happens you'll pay.
You could not, while publicly unmasking an investigative journalist of the calibre of Suale, pretend not to know what risks (potential and actual) your conduct exposed him to. You simply cannot.

Anas and Tiger Eye PI: I should not dare to lecture you on security because your whole life and work hinges on security. But may I ask: did you alert the appropriate security agencies or invoke the relevant laws on threats of harm? There seem to be a law, which when properly invoked, can make any person who threatens you liable for any harm that happens to you over a reasonable period of time - if our justice system provides for that, did you resort to it?
Your partner was exposed and threatened: how did you make sure (at the level of Tiger Eye PI) you enhanced his security in the face of such risky exposure and threats? Perhaps you could let him lay low for a while; or take him to another country; or relocate him to parts of Ghana where people would hardly harm him - there are plenty you could do at your own level.

Ghanaians: Fellow Ghanaians, the anger and rage with which you condemn this murder is not that you think badmouth Ken Agyapong is guilty per sey but because you see in this unfortunate incident an opportunity for authority to shut him and his impugning recklessness up once and for all. You feel that we have sat back and watched him, perhaps supported condoned him, to the level where he now seems uncontrollable. This the very reason you want him intensely investigated and if he's in any way connected to the matter, he be dealt with mercilessly. Y'all just want the police to act in a manner that will show Ken that he's not above the law and that he's not untouchable. Some of you even think Ken has come to represent "arbitrariness and impugning audacity" in way that constitute an affront on rule of law and democracy - so you want him to "know his level"

Ghana Police: One very irritating attitude of yours is how you treat matters relating to people in power - you've done it in all regimes - and Ghanaians don't like that. We know how efficient you're when you mean to be; we know it when you decide to give excuses of lack of resources.
Ghanaians wish you to act in way that shows your allegiance lies first with the nation before any political officeholders.

Mr President: Hard truth is that Ghanaians want you and your party to check Ken no matter what political advantage his recklessness may bring to your party. Your humble self, your party executives and elders, and some prominent Ghanaians should sit down Ken and let him know he has gotten out of hands so that he stops acting like some Hobbestean Leviathan. But when this same Ken is exposing genuine corruption, we love him anyway?

But it looks like we're all wishing for the impossible: the police ain't ready to do what we want! Mr President (like any other President) won't mind us not because he's wicked but because our own bad political culture of making the political party which constitutes government (often with majority in Parliament) to be more powerful than the government itself.

NPP: Your attitude of defending and justifying everything involving your party and it's members is simply annoying. No one can say Ken is guilty, not just yet; but you can't defend his recklessness either.

NDC: You're now playing holy abi, smh. You sat by without using your power in Parliament to call Ken to order and eight or so months after his reckless threats, you now behave like aside Ken there can't be any other suspects in this murder. Your call for the interrogation of Ken by CID is legitimate but the insinuations are off the mark.

The Hard Reality: As painful as this murder is, there could be multiple causes of Suale's death. It could be that Ken's exposure gave those affected by the work of Tiger Eye PI to strike, knowing fingers will obviously be pointed at Ken. It could be that he had personal issues (completely unrelated to his work) with someone who decided to strike now. It could that those who are affected by his work tracked him down (without the help of Ken's exposure) and took him out. There are a million and one factors and we simply can't ignore any of them, neither can we focus on just one.

But what happens if the NDC gets their own "Ken?"

© Kombian SOMTUAKA (2019)


 

By: Eric Nana Prekoh | Ghanaguardian.com | Ghana