A reporter with Accra-based portal, ModernGhana.com who was arrested together with his Editor, by some National Security Operatives has set the records straight in the widespread report of torture in the arrest and subsequent detention of the two.
In a Press statement issued on behalf of the reporter, Emmanuel Britwum by his Lawyer, Deborah Asabere-Ameyaw Esq, said there is a clear attempt in the media to draw him into the raging debate over an alleged unlawful arrest and torture-laden interrogation of Mr. Ajafor by the National Security Operatives.
But the statement indicated:”For the avoidance of doubt my client wishes to state categorically that he neither witnessed Mr. Ajafor being “tortured” or “brutalised” nor did he elect anyone to speak publicly on his behalf on the matter in issue.
The statement also clarified that Britwum himself was also “neither tortured nor brutalised during his arrest and subsequent detention by the National Security Operatives on Thursday June 27, 2019 over a matter that is presently under investigations.”
He’s thus disassociated himself entirely from allegations of misconduct being leveled in his name against the National Security over the aforementioned issue in the media.
Meanwhile, Legal practitioner Samson Lardi Anyenini has stood down his representation for the reporter, Britwum.
It comes after the journalist, Britwum, recounted his testimony before the police now claiming, through another lawyer, that he was not abused while in detention.
