The Ministry of National Security says it has initiated investigations into circumstances under which two journalists with Citi FM and Citi TV were attacked by National Security operatives.
The Ministry has promised to take the appropriate actions if the allegations are found to be true.
“The Ministry takes with all seriousness, the allegations of manhandling of the two journalists during the interrogation. The Ministry has therefore initiated investigations into the said allegations,” the Ministry said in a statement.
Caleb Kudah, who’s also the Host of BackPage, a news satirical show on Citi TV, is the latest victim of brutality by security personnel after he was assaulted by some National Security operatives who detained him for filming some grounded MASLOC vehicles parked at the premises.
Another Citi FM journalist, Zoe Abu-Baidoo Addo, was also picked up later at the premises of Citi FM for receiving the videos from Caleb Kudah.
About half a dozen heavily armed personnel turned up at the station and tried to detain her without following due process.
They subsequently escorted her to the National Security Ministry where she was interrogated and allowed to go.
Mr. Kudah was also released later in the evening on Tuesday, May 11, 2021.
Mr. Kudah on The Point of View on Citi TV on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, revealed how he was physically assaulted by the National Security operatives who arrested him.
“They seized my phone and pushed me and I sat on the chair. They [National Security operatives] slapped me from the back. I was trying to appeal to them that they had beaten me enough, but they were just slapping me from the back. I’ll be talking to another one and someone will just come and slap me from the back.”
He said one of the security operatives even kicked him in his groin.
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