{"id":65981,"date":"2014-11-17T17:50:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T17:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=65981"},"modified":"2014-11-17T19:42:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T19:42:36","slug":"bni-invitation-of-citi-fm-boss-preposterous-mfwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/11\/bni-invitation-of-citi-fm-boss-preposterous-mfwa\/","title":{"rendered":"BNI invitation of Citi FM boss \u201cpreposterous\u201d – MFWA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has described as \u201cextremely preposterous,\u201d the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) invitation and questioning of Citi FM<\/strong> boss over an online publication.<\/p>\n

He questioned why the Ghana Police Service was by-passed in the investigations saying, \u201cit is not even the Police but a National Security Agency\u2026I think we have enough mechanisms to deal with such infractions if they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”r10hALmzPBiHyVlkTKit4skNO4hQo7xC”]The Chief Executive Officer of the Citi FM<\/strong>, Samuel Attah-Mensah was on Monday invited by the BNI for questioning over on online publication on citifmonline.com about the arrest of a Ghanaian woman<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in the UK for possessing cocaine weighing 12kg.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old Nayeli Ametefeh was reported to have traveled with a Ghanaian Diplomatic passport but the government has denied the report.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Attah-Mensah\u2019s Counsel, Nii Apatu Plange told citifmonline.com<\/strong>\u00a0that he was not allowed to join Mr. Attah-Mensah during the interrogation.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong><\/em>, the Executive Director of MFWA, Sule Brimah said that if indeed, the earlier publication contained inaccuracies; it was not enough reason for Mr. Attah-Mensah to be invited by the BNI.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us assume it contains inaccuracies and on the basis of that we will pick up the head of that media organization?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that such occurrences are only witnessed in places like Somalia, Iraq or in Syria.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that Ghana has gone past this stage and I will be extremely surprised if it is anything related to information or content put out by Citi FM,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Briamah lamented that it is \u201cvery, very surprising that Ghana at this day and age; 20 years of democracy\u2026the repeal of the Criminal Libel law, a country that is put out there in the world as being one of the freest in media freedom and then it does this because a station has put up something that in their view or they have established not to be true and the reaction is that; will just come and whisk the manager of the station away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the things that existed during the Military times that we all cried about. Increasingly, Ghana is losing that status as a press freedom country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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