Following claims by anti-corruption campaigner, Martin Amidu that investigative journalist Anas and his Tigereye PI firm are for-profit organization, Anas has refuted the claims saying he only collaborates with institutions he deemed fit to facilitate his work.<\/p>\n
According to Anas, most of his investigations have been successful due to the collaborations he enjoys from other institutions.<\/p>\n
He noted that when former President John Mills tasked him to investigate the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and the Customs Excise the Preventive Service, he collaborated with the institutions themselves.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”PrSmUbimo9AOeWOIFBODnnsrKAVk7hAJ”]\u201cWe were here in this country when Mills took me up to do ECG and the Tema Harbour… there were loads including pampers which some people were using the office of the president \u00a0to clear [their] goods without the knowledge of the president and that is what incensed him and he went. So as far as I\u2019m concern, if you give me a job once you do not have editorial discretion on that job, I will take it and I will do it. Please let\u2019s not restrict collaboration and mix things, it\u2019s not financing,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n
Anas maintained that \u00a0\u201c…when I was doing Tema Habour if I didn\u2019t have government collaboration I wouldn\u2019t have done it and I don\u2019t think that there would be any journalist who would have done it as effective as I did without that collaboration. We were arrested, how were we going to move and see through the system and move our containers. This is impossible; you needs some of these collaborations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anas made the comment on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Martin Amidu has among other things accused government of sponsoring Anas on his recent judicial corruption expos\u00e9.<\/p>\n But Anas insulated the government saying he executed the judicial corruption investigation alone with Tigereye PI team.<\/p>\n The ace journalist also\u00a0recounted how\u00a0he enjoyed collaborations during his investigations in other countries.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t only collaborate in Ghana. In Seychelles I got arrested as soon as I got there and eventually I collaborated with the Seychelles government and we brought some bad guys to book. In Sierra Leone remember when I filmed the Sierra Leonean vice president, I don\u2019t know what would have happened if I had filmed our vice president, we went through same process, it was collaboration. In Tanzania, spell of the albino, same collaboration, so if I cannot do collaboration in other countries then I cannot do collaboration in my country?\u201d<\/p>\n He further dared Mr. Amidu to provide evidence if he thinks otherwise saying \u201cIf anybody has evidence of any financial stuff that has gone on, let him provide it.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n