Alleged assassination of Journalists docket forwarded to AG

The Police on Tuesday said it had forwarded a docket on an alleged assassination attempt on two journalists to the Attorney-General's Office for advice, a source told the Ghana News Agency.

The Police have charged Mr Victor Smith, an aide to the former president with conspiracy to commit crime and an attempt to commit crime after he and one A. K. Mensah, a member of the Action Forum, a National Democratic Congress (NDC) Youth Group, drafted a letter to warn the two journalists to desist from criticising former President Jerry John Rawlings.

The two journalists are Mrs Margaret Amoakohene, a social commentator and a lecturer at the School of Communications, University of Ghana, Legon and Mr Kwaku Baako Junior, Editor of the Crusading Guide.

The source told the GNA that investigators have finished with their work and were seeking further advice from the law office of the state. The source said as soon as the recommendation were ready, the Police would proceed on any further action.

Mr Smith is currently on police enquiry bail. An Accra Daily and a weekly newspaper, on March 19, published what was described as " a sinister plan to eliminate a number of journalists whose comments and writings were critical on the former president."

The alleged plotters specifically mentioned Mr Kwaku Baako's contribution on News File, a programme on an Accra FM station hosted on Saturday's and Mrs Margaret Amoakuhene's contribution on GTV's Breakfast Show. Mr Smith has admitted on an Accra Radio station that he drafted the so-called letter to the two journalists when he was approached by A.K. Mensah to do so.