“Kenu stabbed journos in the back” – Lawyer

A decision by the Ashanti Regional Editor of the Daily Graphic Newspaper, Daniel Kenu, to drop assault charges against Baffour Gyan, big brother of Black Stars’ skipper Asamoah Gyan, is a betrayal of all journalists, private legal practitioner Abraham Amaliba has said.

In his view, Kenu has “stabbed journalists in the back”. He dropped the charges on Friday on health grounds.

In a letter to the Kumasi Circuit Court to inform the Judge about his decision to discontinue the case, Kenu said the recent death of his Uncle, as a result of the media attention the case brought onto the family, as well his own rising blood pressure, coupled with the failing health of his mother, informed his decision to let go.

His MD Ken Ashigbey had earlier said the Graphic Communications Group would pursue the case to its end.

Amaliba said on Joy FM’s news and current affairs programme, newsfile, Saturday that he saw Kenu’s decision as a stab in the back of his MD, who had braced up to fight for justice on his behalf.

The Editor was assaulted by Gyan and some macho men at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi just a day before Ghana’s AFCON qualifier clash with the Cranes of Uganda.

The assault was a way of getting back at Kenu, for a question he posed to Asamoah Gyan, two days earlier, at a press conference, about whether the Black Stars’ skipper sacrificed his friend and fellow celebrity, Castro, for spiritual purposes.

Castro and a female companion, Janet Bandu, went missing on July 6 while jet skiing at a Resort in Ada in the Greater Accra Region. It has not been established if they died or survived.