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BY: News Desk Report
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Graphic Online’s court reporter Mr Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson and two other journalists have been selected to receive the Article 19 Press Prize awards.
The recipients are being rewarded for producing compelling stories that highlighted the ills of the country’s criminal justice system and why there was need for reforms.
The award scheme is organised by African Heights Foundation, in partnership with Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA).
Winning story
Mr Hawkson was announced as the 1st runner-up with a story titled, “Caged for Seven Years,” which was published on the front page of the Daily Graphic on March 3, 2020.
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Abugri writes: Is the court no longer a safe place for redress? Listen to article
Many Ghanaians are not comfortable with the law court as an option to seek redress. The hope of seeking justice in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana is fast depreciating. The poor and less privilege have come to see the court as a tyrannical institution for which they have no share.
Credit to one of Africa’s best investigative team; Tiger Eye PI, Ghanaians have gotten to know the long open secret that takes place in our law courts. A place that should have been a safe yard for the poor, is fast becoming a healthy slaughter house. Anas Ayemeyaw Anas, the man I choose to call ‘The Tiger of Bimbila’ in his usual life-risking undercover journalism few years ago unearthed what could best be described as a crumbling secret of money-loving judges whose interest should have been truth-loving and justice dispensing. It will not be wrong to say that most of our judges dotted within our law courts are fit to be S
Anas whose colleague journalist Ahmed Suale was murdered on the line of duty believes that people in his profession needs enough state protection to carry out their duties as the fourth force of the nation.
He has made his call on the back of recent complaints of threats and attacks on some journalists in the country.
Anas Aremeyaw Anas particularly mentioned, Manasseh Azure Awuni, Edward Adeti, Afia Pokuaah, Captain Smart, Abdul Hayi Moomen, David Tamakloe among others as some persons whose lives must be protected by security agencies.
In a statement, the Tiger Eye P.I boss condemned the attacks describing them as “barbaric and backward” adding that,