A private car belonging to Abdul
Hayi Moomen, a journalist working with the GBC, Ghana’s state broadcaster, has
been broken into and some valuables made away with.
Moomen, announcing the robbery
in a post on his Facebook page shared pictures of the salon car which shows one
of the back windows at the left side smashed.
The images also show the
interior of the car visibly ransacked.
Giving some details about the
break-in, Moomen wrote: “He stole my video camera, secret video recorder, lapel
microphones, 2 floodlights and a tripod.”
This incident comes barely a
month after the GBC journalist took to his Facebook page to communicate a threat
on his life by some men.
In that December threat after
the elections during which Moomen gave extensive reportage and hosted
programmes on TV, Moomen stated: “I have lodged an official complaint to the
Nima police. But should anything happen to me or any member of my family,
please help them to track the guy in black (it’s the best shot I could get of
him under the circumstances). He and his friends have threatened to deal with
me.”
Moomen then added in a separate
post: “They say they know where I live and that, that job will be easy.”
It is unclear whether the robbery has anything to do with the
earlier threat to his life. However, following his post indicating the break-in,
he again made another post indicating that he did not want to be dragged into
needless politics as the initial threat on his life had been widely interpreted
as having political underpinnings.
“It’s a thief. Simple and
straight. Please do not drag me into needless politics. Please,” he wrote.
It is also not clear whether the
thief had been caught or not, however, there were comments under his post
suggesting the culprit had been arrested.
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