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Ghanaian investigative journalist shot dead

Ahmed Hussein-Suale, a Ghanaian undercover reporter has been reportedly shot dead.

Hussein-Suale was said to have been shot two times on the chest and one time around the neck by gunmen on a motorbike while returning home in his vehicle in Madina area of Accra, Ghana’s capital.

His colleague, Anas Aremeyaw Anas of Tiger Eye in Ghana announced this Thursday and posted online that his co-investigator was killed on Wednesday night.

A grieving Anas posted alongside a video of a Ghanaian lawmaker, Kennedy Agyapong, making violent threats against Mr Hussein-Suale.

Kennedy remarked that the public should deal with Mr Hussein-Suale for a handsome reward, a threat that creates an impression that the journalist was assassinated.

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Meanwhile, media rights advocates have reacted to this ugly news and attacks journalists on the African soil still face.

On its twitter handle, the Committee to Project Journalists condemned the killing while urging authorities to bring the killers of Hussein-Suale to book

It writes, “Authorities in #Ghana should immediately investigate the killing of journalist Ahmed Divela and ensure that threats against the press are taken seriously.”

Mr Anas and his team have taken on several Ghanaian sectors to expose corruption, including the 2015 undercover that exposed judges as taking cash bribes and forced many of them to resign.

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