Stanley Nii Blewu

Gender: Male
TV Journalist

Attacked for filming sanitation project

Stanley Nii Blewu was covering sanitation project in Accra in company of colleague Joseph Armstrong. The incident began after Blewu and Gold-Alorgbey interviewed people at the sanitation site and then approached Tema Lorry police station to film there. As they approached, a group of police officers and soldiers stopped them and demanded that they delete the footage they had recorded, when the journalists refused, a soldier who identified himself as “Frimpong” physically attacked Blewu. The soldier also confiscated the journalists’ camera and phones during the attack, and held them for several hours. Joseph Armstrong told AMDF that they were informed that the matter had been investigated and the officer involved “punished accordingly”.

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