(MFWA/IFEX) – The managing editor of the bi-weekly newspaper “Ghana Palaver”, Jojo Bruce Quansah, who was allegedly attacked and reported missing, has said that he went into hiding for fear of losing his life. Quansah said he went to Tema, a suburb of the Greater Accra Region, to seek medical attention and refuge. According to […]
(MFWA/IFEX) – The managing editor of the bi-weekly newspaper “Ghana Palaver”, Jojo Bruce Quansah, who was allegedly attacked and reported missing, has said that he went into hiding for fear of losing his life.
Quansah said he went to Tema, a suburb of the Greater Accra Region, to seek medical attention and refuge.
According to the editor, eight men accosted him in the early hours of November 8, 2005 while he was returning from the newspaper’s printers. He said the men insisted on knowing his newspaper’s publishers.
After Quansah was reported missing, one of his relatives said he received a telephone call from a woman who said she saw Quansah at about 3:00 a.m. GMT on November 8, severely beaten with blood-stained clothes. She reported the matter to the police.
On November 9, however, Quansah resurfaced and reported to the police.
The police said they could not confirm the attack on Quansah, but were questioning him about his version of the story.
The “Ghana Palaver” recently launched an appeal for funds to pay 1.94 billion cedis (approx. $US220,000) after it lost two civil suits (see IFEX alert of 9 November 2005).
The damages arose out of lawsuits filed against the newspaper by Works and Housing Minister Hackman Owusu Agyeman and George Kufuor, the brother of President John Agyekum Kufuor, in April 2004 and September 2005, respectively.
