I will curse Anas to death – CEPS official

He stirred the honest’s nest with his expose of security officials who were captured on video allegedly taking bribe to aid cocoa smuggling along the Western Boarders of the country.

Danger now looms at the ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, following threats from some CEPS and other unknown persons whose activities may have been jeopardized by the secret filming.

One of the CEPS officials, now standing trial for complicity in the alleged cocoa smuggling was last week on Metro TV reiterating his intention to curse the people who brought him money ostensibly to “test” him.

“If he had come to test me, then, I will curse him to die,” the CEPS official threatened The New Crusading Guide investigative team which was led by Anas.

There was near drama on the same programme when another implicated CEPS official categorically denied ever taking any bribe money. “You see some image counting money but the next moment you see some money in hands counting (SIC),” the CEPS official reiterated.

“I have my picture all right on the video but the background with the name Brebre Okk is a place where I have never been to,” he stressed and added that he suspected “foul deal” casting doubts over the video. Immediately our ace investigative journalist Anas, heard doubts being cast about his painstaking investigative video, he immediately pushed extra information also in the video, which is not in the public domain, to Metro TV to air. This time however, the said CEPS officials who a few hours earlier had denied taking any bribe money, was visibly seen using a calculator to calculate the bribe money to be taken.

The general public was last week almost hypnotized when a video of alleged bribe money taking security officials were shown on almost all major television channels. Phone calls, with a withheld line warning Anas to stay away from releasing more video footage of the alleged illegal activities, were received several times by Anas over the last few days.

When Anas was asked whether he was bothered about the telephone calls, he simply parried them away saying, “these are the trademarks of coward criminals. If they are bold, why don’t they call us with the ‘normal’ telephone numbers.”

He however promised to release further video evidences when the need arose. Already, eight customs officers and a policeman implicated in the cocoa smuggling have been arrested by the police CID.

There arrests come in the wake of three-month comprehensive undercover investigations led by ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, on how Ghana’s cocoa got smuggled. The video documentary has officers from the Army, Police, Customs and National security engaged in massive smuggling of cocoa to neighboring Ivory Coast.

Anas, has hailed the initial arrested of nine persons identified in the video but he is pushing for more arrests to follow, as, according to him, his work indicted more than 40 people for their various roles in the smuggling of cocoa to Ivory Coast.

According to him, the video currently being aired by the various television stations is just a tip of the iceberg.