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Journalist Nearly Lynched In Kumasi For Doing His JOB!

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Showing that this country is doomed to repeat it’s mistakes until the end of time, a reporter in the Ashanti region was nearly lynched to death Tuesday for merely doing his job.

Isaac Nsiah Foster, a journalist with the Kumasi based radio station Otec Fm, was investigating the construction of a fuel station at an illegal site when the owner of the place and his workers attempted to lynch him.

Luckily for Mr Nsiah Foster, a group of residents and some trotro drivers saved him from the bloodthirsty mob chasing him for his head.

mynewsgh reports…

Isaac Nsiah Foster, a local journalist with Otec FM on Tuesday morning, took to his heels and was being pursued by construction workers with life-threatening objects led by the owner of fuel filling station under construction in the area.

The reporter was at the site to investigate the illegal sighting of the fuel station following incessant complaints from the local residents to the station.

According to the reporter, the owner of the fuel station whose name was given as John Appiah accosted him and asked him to identify himself or he would be killed.

After he made his identity known, he ordered laborers at the site to deal with him claiming he was a criminal and an intruder but he manage to escape.

They started chasing him with pick-ups and shovels but for the timely intervention of residents and some commercial drivers plying the area who came to his rescue after he was heard screaming “I am not a thief, I am a journalist” and running towards.



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