Some sympathizers of Accra FM’s journalist Bobie Ansah who was arrested by security operatives Thursday night after he ended his show at about 10:00pm.
Was on Friday, 11 February 2022, massed up at the premises of the Striking Force Unit of the Ghana Police Service in Accra to demand for the release of the ‘Citizen Show’ host, who was arrested in connection with an alleged case of publication of false news and offensive conduct.
The journalist was picked up and taken to the Nima Police Station and later transferred to the striking force.
He becomes the third journalist to be arrested in the past month.
His follows Captain Smart of Onua TV who was also arrested for some utterances he had made on TV, and is currently facing trial for alleged extortion and Power FM’s Oheneba Boamah Bennie, who is in jail for two weeks and fined GHS3,000 for contempt of court, in a case in which he allegedly made false claims against President Akufo-Addo and the justices of the Supreme Court in relation to the 2020 election petition.
