Accra, Ghana, June 28, 2019//-The membership and leadership of the Ghana WASH Journalists Network (GWJN) demanded the immediate release of their member, Ajafor Azunungu Emmanuel and one other journalist EmmanuelBretwum, both of ModernGhana.com, a leading news portal in the country.
In a statement issued by the National Coordinator of GWJN, Justice Lee Adoboe and the network’s National General Secretary, Samuel Asamoah, condemned the arrest carried out by the National Security in Accra yesterday.
“We understand their equipment and gadgets were also taken over by the said security operatives.
GWJN condemns in no uncertain terms the crude method adopted by security operatives to deal with journalists in a so-called fledgling democracy”, the statement said.
“We demand the immediate release of Emmanuel Ajafor and his colleague by the state security operatives”.
African Eye Report