Anti-corruption crusader and former Executive Director of Transparency International Ghana, Vitus Adaboo Azeem, has raised questions about the whereabouts of an investigative report compiled by award-winning investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.

According to him, the said investigative report was on the Parliament of Ghana, which was previewed to a group of people but never made it to the public for some reasons unknown to him.

“He (Anas) mentioned that he had another exposé on the legislature, that is, Parliament, and that he was going to release it soon. How many years now? It hasn’t come out,” he said during a panel discussion at the 2026 National Forum on Media and the Fight Against Corruption in Ghana held in Accra.

He suggested that some powerful people might have been notified of the exposé and they did all they could to stop it from being published.

“Because he gave a copy of it or an extract of it to the leadership of Parliament, and somebody said, ‘This cannot be published, you cannot put this in the public domain… Why did they not publish it?’” he fumed.

The anti-corruption activist indicated that Anas published his exposé on the judiciary despite the powers that were at play, but has chosen not to publish that of Parliament.

He made these remarks while calling for collaboration between the media and CSOs, so that journalists can be properly protected when they publish their work.

“When Anas released his exposé on the judiciary, he called anti-corruption agencies and CSOs to a meeting. It was a Sunday afternoon at GSC… The aim was to solicit our support because he probably expected some backlash or some attacks from members of the judiciary and other people.

“So there is a need for non-journalists and other anti-corruption agencies to come together to always support and defend journalists who report on these things,” he said.

The 2026 National Forum on Media and the Fight Against Corruption in Ghana was organised by the Media Foundation for West Africa in collaboration with the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) and the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition, with funding from DW Akademie and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

It brought together journalists, anti-corruption institutions, legal practitioners, and civil society actors from across the country to examine how the media can more effectively drive accountability and transparency.

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