"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."
- John Philpot Curran (1750-1817)
That journalists in Ghana now face increasing intimidation, is beyond dispute. To send a clear signal to would-be-tyrrants, in our homeland Ghana, perhaps the International Press Centre in Accra, ought to be named after Ahmed Suale, the murdered Tiger Eye investigative journalist.
In so doing, the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), would be immortalising him, and symbolically avenging his death, in a real sense. It will be also be a clear message to the hypocritical-cowards, who had him murdered, that regardless of how long it takes, the media will ensure that the hunt for his murderers, never becomes a cold-homicide-case, and that fear that they will all be eventually exposed, prosecuted and sentenced to life imprisonment, will haunt them till the end of their natural lives.
Social standing will not save Ahmed Suale's murderers either A case in point: During the mid-1960s, a very popular politician at the time, a Dr. Ohene Djan, who had widespread appeal amongst young people, ended up in jail, for the murder of a night-watchman. So nothing is impossible, Ghanafuo.
Finally, the question that all Ghana's patriotic and independent-minded media professionals ought to ponder over is: Should Tiger Eye's Ahmed Suale not be honoured, by naming the Ghana International Press Centre, after him? Hmmmm, Oman Ghana - enti, yewieye paaaa, enei? Asem kesie, bi, ebeba debi ankasa, ooooo. Yooooo...
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