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#4797704 at 2019-01-18 00:28:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6123: The GROUNDED Edition
Journalist in Ghana who helped expose FIFA corruption shot dead
ACCRA, Ghana - An investigative journalist in Ghana who helped expose a high-ranking official at world soccer body FIFA as corrupt was shot dead by gunmen on a motorbike as he drove home alone at night, police said Thursday.
His employers said he was assassinated.
Ahmed Hussein-Suale was killed late Wednesday, shot twice in the chest and once in the neck at close range while driving in the suburb of Accra where he lived. He died immediately, according to police.
Tiger Eye PI, the investigative journalism house Hussein-Suale worked for, said it had the hallmarks of a professional hit.
"We call on the security agencies to unmask the elements behind this assassination and bring them to book," Tiger Eye PI said.
Police haven't announced any arrests.
Hussein-Suale worked under the leadership of Anas Aremeyaw Anas, a renowned Ghanaian investigative journalist once singled out and praised by former U.S. President Barack Obama as courageous and who has used undercover television documentaries to expose graft and organized crime in Ghana and across Africa.
Anas, who himself has gone undercover to investigate issues like human trafficking and corruption among Ghanaian judges, appears in public wearing elaborate, multicolored veils over his face to protect his identity. The veils allow him to work without being recognized but also help to avoid reprisals.
Anas confirmed Hussein-Suale's death on Facebook: "Sad news, but we shall not be silenced. Rest in peace."
The team's most recent work focused on exposing corruption in African soccer, which they portray as a murky world of backroom meetings where coaches, referees and even the most senior officials can be bribed to fix games or hand out favors.
The team got one of its biggest scoops when it caught Kwesi Nyantakyi, a member of world soccer's FIFA Council and the second most powerful man in African soccer at the time, taking a bribe of $65,000 from their undercover reporters, who were posing as unethical businessmen. Nyantakyi smiles as he stuffs the wads of cash into a black plastic bag and agrees to use his position as president of the Ghanaian Football Association to help the businessmen - for a cut of their profits.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2019/01/17/journalist-ghana-who-helped-expose-fifa-corruption-shot-dead/2604783002/