3News has quoted the former Ghana Football Association president Kwesi Nyantakyi investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas as a terrorist in relation to Kennedy Agyapong’s triumph over him in court.
The presiding judge Justice Eric Baah claimed that Anas Aremeyaw Anas had failed to produce proof that Ken Agyapong had slandered him by airing the documentary “Who watches the watchman?”
Instead, the program uncovered dubious transactions that Anas and his friends were engaged in. In 2018, Anas sued the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for defamation, seeking GHC25 million in damages for the false information Agyapong released about him.
The court concluded that Anas’ work did not constitute investigative journalism but rather investigative terrorism, and that Agyapong was justified in calling Anas “a blackmailer, corrupt, an extortionist, and evil.”
Following the ruling, Kennedy Agyapong dedicated his victory to Kwesi Nyantakyi, who received a lifetime football ban, which was later reduced to 15 years following Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ Number 12 documentary in 2018.
In an interview with Accra-based Oman FM, Nyantakyi commended the court’s decision, stating that it demonstrated the truth about Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
He said, “The high court’s decision testifies to the truth that Anas Aremeyaw Anas is not honest but as described by the court, he is a blackmailer and an extortionist.”
“The judge also described his job as an investigative terrorist instead of an investigative journalist. I have said before that Tiger Eye PI is a terrorist group. We have all been educated in our line of jobs such as journalism, law, engineering and medicine among others so what is so important to blackmail someone? If the person has really committed a crime, why not just go out and publish their deeds straightforwardly but rather ask for money first?”
Source – Tru News Report
