Ghana Police Exposed In Fake Criminal Charges Against Whatsup News

Whstsup News can authoritatively report that the Ghana Police Service (GPS) has been thrown into a state of panic after it turned out that they had absolutely no charge against the Whatsup News Editor-in-Chief, David Tamakloe when they arrested him on April Fools’ Day at gunpoint.

Sources close to Mrs. Eunice Boah Asomah Hinneh, the complainant in the case have sworn that she did not make any complaint of extortion against Mr. Tamakloe.

According to the reliable sources, the allegation of extortion could have been smuggled into the charge sheet by agents within the security apparatus allegedly acting on behalf of some interested parties, including some disgruntled officers at the National Security Secretariat and John Peter Amewu, the Railway Minister, whose randy escapades with a married woman was reported by Whatsup News a few days prior.

Also, Whatsup News is reliably informed that on date April 13, 2021, the powerful and well-connected woman at the centre of the arrest wrote to COP Isaac Ken Yeboah, the Director-General of the Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to withdraw the case and automatically expunge any charges that had been slapped on Mr. David Tamakloe.

Among the charges pinned on Mr. Tamakloe include extortion and “Publication of False News”. Curiously, Whatsup News had not even published the said story yet. The newspaper was still investigating the allegations and as required by journalistic ethics, was interviewing all persons supposedly involved in the story.

But for a week now, reliable sources from within the security structures tell Whatsup News that the Police Service has been thoroughly embarrassed by their scandalous arrest and have consequently swept the letter exonerating the Whatsup News Editor of any wrongdoing under the carpet.

The full content of the said letter is not immediately clear at the moment but is apparently, the police service is refusing to overturn the mess it has created because it will deeply expose their unprofessional conduct, Whatsup News gathered.

Mr. Tamakloe is threatening a possible legal action against the police for slapping a fake charge on him in his line of duty, investigating a news story.

“I am likely to seek legal advice to proceed with a possible legal suit to ensure that the police reverses their reckless and unprofessional conduct. The arrest was calculated to embarrass me, the newspaper and my family and loved ones,” Mr. Tamakloe stated.

Meanwhile, should Mr. Tamakloe and Whatsup News be forced to take legal action against the Ghana Police Service to seek redress for the Gestapo-styled arrest and charges, some explosive revelations may come up in court, involving some very prominent people at the helm of affairs in the country.

“The next move by the police will strongly dictate our next course of action,” Mr. Raphael Ofori-Adeniran, the Germany-based Managing Editor of Whatsup News stated.

Late March 2021, Mr. Tamakloe was investigating a story and had been asked by the main subject of the story to meet him up at the Afrikiko Restaurant in Accra to tell him her side of the story. However, hardly had the investigative journalist settled down to asking questions of the subject than a battalion of heavily armed men from the National Security and the Police CID storm the place and bundled the shocked journalist away.

The Police on April 2, 2021, proceeded to issue a statement stating that Mr. Tamakloe was arrested for extortion.

In the statement signed by one DSP Juliana Obeng, the head of CID’s Public Affairs, it claims the Editor was arrested “on alleged offences of attempt to commit crime to wit: extortion contrary to section 18 (1) and 151 (1) and Publication of false news contrary to section 208 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).”

The statement had peeved Mr. Tamakloe’s attorney, Edudzi Kudzo Tameklo Esq who blasted the police and warned them to withdraw the statement because of the blatant lies contained in it.

Mr. Edudzi Tamekloe wrote in a statement: “His junior officers took a statement from David Tamakloe on Thursday for the offence of false publication. On Thursday, there was no issue of blackmail or extortion. It is an afterthought because I pointed out to the Investigator, Inspector Charles Adjei that he is yet to publish the story. That he is still speaking to the people involved to ensure fairness. How do you arrest such a person?”

Apparently, fearing for his wife, Mr Asoma Hinneh the Director of Human Resources had ordered his “boys” to go arrest the Whatsup News editor who was digging for information from his wife- Mrs. Eunice Boah Asomah Hinneh.

He proceeded to instigate the bogus charges against the Whatsup News boss, insiders tell this publication. 

Meanwhile, the international media and several international organisations have been puzzled by the arrest, which was the second of such within the space of six months. 

In July 2020, Whatsup News was attacked when Mr. Tamakloe was arrested Rambo-styled from his office in Accra and driven over 7 hours in the late hours of the night to New Edubiase in the Ashanti Region in handcuffs.

That police in New Edubiase, apparently acting on instruction from the Jubilee House’s Eugene Arhin has claimed Whatsup News had published false news. Yet the news in reference was a direct report of allegations made by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) concerning tribal profiling in New Edubiase during the voters registration at the time.