Anas needs prayers – Eva Lokko

daniel russell

September 23, 2015 2:09 PM

Anas' investigative pieces over the years have captured on video bad management practices, food theft, drugs trafficking and drugs sales from the Accra Psychiatric Hospital among others

Eva Lokko, 2012 Vice Presidential Candidate of PPP

The 2012 Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Eva Naa Merley Lokkois urging Ghanaians to pray for ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas for his safety.

Speaking to Pulse.com.gh after the premiere of , the three-hour edited video which is the result of a two-year painstaking investigation into the judiciary by Anas and his Tiger Eye PI, the former Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation said although the constitution grants the journalist immunity from prosecution, spiritual protection is not so much guaranteed.

“The law can protect him as much as it can… if somebody wants to do harm to you, they find all ways so we should all pray every day to make sure that Anas is safe. What he is doing is a very difficult thing and that’s why he doesn’t show his face,” Ms Lokko pleaded.

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Anas' investigative pieces over the years have captured on video how some security agencies aided people to smuggle cocoa outside the borders of the country, how inmates at the orphanage in Bawjiase were maltreated and the home being turned into a business venture by its founder; bad management practices, food theft, drugs trafficking and drugs sales from the Accra Psychiatric Hospital among others.

In the latest investigative piece by Anas Aremeyaw Anas, thirty-four judges at the country’s High Courts, the Circuit and District courts were captured on camera allegedly taking bribes from litigants whose cases come before them.

The exposé was premiered at the Accra International Conference Centre despite an application of interlocutory injunction served the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' property.

Watch the full interview above

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