Ghanaian Investigative Journalist Shot Dead For Exposing Massive Corruption

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An investigative journalist in Ghana who exposed massive corruption in African football has been murdered.

The
Ghanaian undercover journalist who helped expose corruption in African
football has been shot dead in the capital Accra, police said Thursday.

The
journalist, Ahmed Husein was part of a team led by award-winning
journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, whose probe led to the resignation of
the head of the Ghana Football Association.

Dozens of football referees and officials were also banned.

A
police spokesperson told AFP the journalist was shot in the neck and
the chest by unknown gunmen on his way home on Wednesday night.

Confirming the incident, Anas tweeted: “Sad news, but we shall not be silenced. Rest in peace, Ahmed.”

Prior to his death, Husein had made a complaint to police after his pictures were published on national television.

Ghana’s national media regulator condemned the killing and called on the police to conduct a thorough investigation.

“It
will be in the national interest to arrest the perpetrators of this
crime,” the commission’s chairman Yaw Boadu Ayeboafo said in a
statement.

Ghanaian journalists condemned the killing of the
34-year-old reporter, who was instrumental in the international football
corruption investigation which broke last year.

Football’s world
governing body FIFA last October banned former Ghana FA boss Kwesi
Nyantakyi for life and fined him nearly $500,000 after he was seen on
camera accepting bribes.

Nyantakyi was accused of requesting $11 million (9.3 million euros) to secure government contracts.

Eight
referees and assistant referees were banned for life while 53 officials
were subject to 10-year bans. Fourteen officials were exonerated.

The
revelations rocked Ghana, where football is the national sport and
which prides itself as being a stable democracy in an often turbulent
region.

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