High risk investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, has made a disclosure that although his mode of journalism poses a great danger to his life, he is content that his stories changes the life of others aside correcting the wrongs in society.
According to him, investigative/undercover reportage has been in existence for long but he brought a plot twist to the profession through uncompromising evidence and ensuring perpetrators are punished through the court of law.
“I guess I didn’t start investigate journalism or undercover journalism but brought something different to it. That is looking for that hardcore evidence and then pursuing the hardcore evidence to the court of law and ensuring that those bad guys are punished. There are countless of people who have gone to jail because of what I have done.” He told a reporter on BBC’s What’s New?
Anas, who has been a source of inspiration to people who admire his works, has drawn attention to big issues like corruption and crime. Former president of the United States of America, Barrack Obama referred to him as a “courageous journalist who has risked his life to report the truth.”
Some, on the other hand do not appreciate his manner of journalism but to him, undercover will always remain the last resort to investigative journalism.
On his unique beaded face mask, he explained that it is a representation of the African continent and can be found anywhere in the world.
While revealing he has over 75 prosthetic masks, he revealed that the mask is “mainly because of security concerns and I thought that if I’m undercover anywhere and I felt that I was under siege and I wanted to protect my face, I could find these beads anywhwere.”
He added, “The bad guys are always there. They would always want to come at people like us.”
He, however, encouraged colleagues in the profession to stay true to their integrity and not “chicken out” on hazards and problems caused by people in the society.
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Source: Ghanaweb.com
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this guy is a cr1m1nal. this is called damage control. bbc is trying hard to help this guy cover up his cr1m1nal deals. he is one of the unpatriotic sons of africa nkrumah spoke about. is africa the only place that there is corruption? why cant we deal with our problems internally? well sometimes i dont blame him but blames our past leaders who messed everything for our. anas is only a smart cr1m1nal who is taking advantage of the situation to enrich himself but the law of natural justice will caught up with him someday. u are taking advantage of our problem to make a living an you dont want others to do same? th1efman. i have no doubt he is a confused man now. still looking for ways to throw more dust in his blind followers. i though he said he was going to release some 10mins video of kids begging on the streets since August but he could not do it. bring it out and u will see our reaction. n0ns3ns3. u can deceive some of the ple some of the time but u can not deceive everyone every time.
good work ,keep it up
Anas, go to cocobod and Ghana ports and see if your kind of journalism is the one that contributes to correct the society. you called ur video a hardcore evidence? ur videos or evidence are simulated ones and no serious court shd act on it to jail innocent people. see Supreme Court ruling on February 2018 on secrete recordings. At least MFWA has made a vivid and academic observation and comments about your style of work which according to them is unacceptable. According to them, investigative work or journalist should not trigger or participate in the process of acquiring evidence. Manasseh went to Burkina to interview Kanozure; the one alleged to have given Ford gift to John Mahama. he never participated in the creation of the evidence he obtained but used his journalistic strategy to push the man to say what he has done for the then president. that is the kind of journalism we want. who doesn't know Manasseh yet he has done serious investigations against politicians. can you do such investigations against politicians? please you don't cover ur face because ur work is risky...then Manasseh should cover his face ten times urs. but it's surprising that Anas is advising journalist to be truthful....oooh my God!
MASSA WE DONT TRUST YOU ANY MORE. SOME US DONT EVEN LISTEN TO YOU AND YOUR MASTER.YOU ARE A CRUUK
I challenge anas to investigate why bank of Ghana cannot reduce interest rate to 5 percent. I tell you you will find things you will need believe we even have a president. Stop disturbing our ears and do proper investigations. Someone is steallllingg your gold, oil, timber, bauxite and you are busy investigating your own brother for nothing. Things dey go on Massa let's deal with it.
Anas is too selective. If you want to help ghana investigate why we're poor even when we are drilling oil in excess of $50 billion a year. Massa stop chassing pik porkets and start chassing the hardcore roberss. Like the activities of our leaders and IMF and world Bank. We're losing billions of dollars every month! Don't come tell me what everybody knows.