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Information Minister Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah says the alleged assault on Citi FM s journalist, Caleb Kudah, and subsequent invasion of the station s premises by National Security operatives is a test case for the National Media Commission’s new Secretariat to investigate.
The government recently commissioned a new secretariat to receive and validate complaints of attacks on media practitioners in Ghana and advocate their rights and freedoms.
The Secretariat, known as the National Coordinated Mechanism on the Safety of Journalists, is a centre for media practitioners to report issues of intimidation and harassments in their line of duty for investigation.
Mr Caleb Kudah was arrested on the premises of the Ministry of National Security on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, for filming within the precincts of the security installation.
Dr Ing Kenneth Ashigbey, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Chamber of Telecommunication has condemned the alleged assault of Citi FM/TV 39;s Caleb Kudah and the subsequent raid of the station by National Security operatives to arrest a journalist, Zoe Abu Baidoo. He said the gun-wielding National Security operatives would have shot him if he was the CEO of Citi Fm because he would not have allowed them access to the premises of the station without a warrant of arrest let