Citi News' Caleb Kudah relives bad experience at National security; says he was tortured
- Caleb Kudah, has opened up for the first time about the horrific experience he went through in the hands of the national security operatives
- Narrating his traumatic ordeal he said he was detained and interrogated for several hours amidst torture and maltreatment
- He said he was was butted in the groin area and was slapped from the back
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A broadcast journalist with Citi FM/Citi TV, Caleb Kudah, has opened up for the first time about the horrific experience he went through in the hands of the national security operatives.
According to him, he was physically assaulted by the operatives after he was arrested for filming some abandoned cars at the Ministry of National Security.
Narrating his traumatic ordeal he said he was detained and interrogated for several hours amidst torture and maltreatment.
He revealed that he was pushed down to sit, was butted in the groin area and was slapped from the back while trying to appeal to them that they had beaten him enough.
“They pushed me and I sat on the chair. They slapped me from the back. I was trying to appeal to them that they had beaten me enough, but they were just slapping me from the back. I’ll be talking to another one and someone will just come and slap me from the back.”
On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, Caleb Kudah was arrested by the National Security Operatives for filming abandoned vehicles that had been parked at the Ministry for several years.
Those vehicles were procurred by procured by MASLOC with the tax payers money.
The operatives subsequently raided Citi FM i
In an attempt to arrest Zoe Abu- Baidoo Addo, who Caleb had reportedly sent some of the files he captured at the Ministry to, they raided the premises of Citi FM with guns, causing fear and panic.
Luckily for Zoe, the management of Citi FM/Citi TV prevented the operatives from taking her away and was subsequently escorted to their office where she was interrogated and left to go.
Caleb Kudah was released later in the evening on Tuesday.
In other news, Somalia has rejected the choice of John Mahama, Ghana’s former president, as an envoy of the African Union.
The Somalis say they do not trust him to broker peace in the country due to his former close ties with Kenya.
According to a Peaceonline.com report, a letter reportedly written by Somalia’s Foreign and International Cooperation Minister, Mohammed Abdirazak, explained that the former president had a close relationship with Kenyan leaders.
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Source: YEN.com.gh