Anas Aremeyaw Anas is a blessing to this country and Africa at large. He is human and susceptible to mistakes but his good outweigh his mistakes.
Check out 30 human interest stories he has done since he started his investigative journalism in 1999.
1.The burger story (1999)
He worked as a street hawker to expose police officers who took bribes from unlicensed traders on a major highway in Accra.
2. July – Torture on the high seas (2003)
Anas went undercover aboard a shipping vessel from Afko fisheries to expose the maltreatment of Ghanaian workers by a Korean employer.
3. April Bole rebel raid (2005)
An investigative story which exposed how Ivorian rebels invaded Ghanaian territories in 2005, made incursions into some northern communities, and subjected the inhabitants to constant torture and abuse.
After the story was reported, the government of John Kufuor took steps to address the lack of security in the affected communities.
4. April 2006 Passport scandal
Posing as a rich businessman, Anas worked to expose officials within Ghana’s passport office who provided Ghanaian passports to non-citizens for a fee. He made hundreds of passports using fake identities. This led to the fast track introduction of biometric passport for Ghanaians.
5. Torture chamber of Bangkok prisons (2006)
He travelled to Thailand to infiltrate its prisons as a Catholic priest. He interviewed some Ghanaian and West African prisoners about the maltreatment and deaths of foreign prisoners in jail, exposing the abuse of expatriates in Thai prisons.
As a result, the government of Ghana successfully negotiated with the Thai government for the transfer of all convicted Ghanaian prisoners in Thailand to Ghana.
6. June 13 – Eurofood scandal (2006)
He went undercover as menial worker at Eurofood, a biscuit and confectionery factory in Ghana. Eurofood was using expired and maggot-infested flour to produce biscuits for public consumption in Ghana and other parts of Africa.
7.September 2007 Soja Bar prostitution.
Anas went undercover by posing as a cleaner. He exposed how some teenagers were forced into prostitution.
He also exposed Soja Bar as a place for hardened criminals and the exploitation of women.
Soja Bar was later demolished by Ghanaian authorities and some of the under-aged prostitutes were taken in by Ghana’s Social Welfare.
8. August 2008 – Imam’s school of shock
This is a story of a slave master who trafficked and abused 15 children in Ghana and Togo using an Islamic school as bait. He recruited young victims into a life of begging, using their efforts to amass significant wealth. Anas gathered evidence through the use of a hidden camera, which led to the arrest of the slave master.
9. Humans for Sale: Dons exposed (2008)
This was an investigation Anas carried out over an eight-month period. It spanned over five countries in West Africa and Europe. He worked to penetrate an international trafficking ring, gathered evidence to prosecute a political figure, rescued 17 girls about to be trafficked, exposed corrupt immigration officials, and stood as a witness in the trial.
10. Sept 2010-Orphans home of hell–Osu
Undercover in Ghana’s biggest state run orphanage. Exposed corruption and abuse of children in the facility.
11. April 2010 – In the interest of the State
Exposed cocoa smugglers and their cohorts in Ghana’s security system.
12. January 2010 – Inside Ghana’s madhouse
Undercover in Ghana’s biggest psychiatric hospital Anas exposed patient human rights abuses. He went there as a madman.
13. December 2011 Al Jazeera Africa investigates (Four films)
Sierra Leone – Timber
Ghana’s Gold
Fools’ Gold
Spell of the Albino -Tanzania.
14. February 2011 – Enemies of the nation
Undercover to expose fraud and corruption at one of Ghana’s key points of entry, the Tema harbor.
15. September 2012 – Wild Ghana Project
A look at how gullible and vulnerable customers can be exploited, featuring the “Abortion Lord” who had sex with his female clients when they came to him for abortions.
16. July 2012 – Deadly gold
An investigation into the negative effects of illegal gold mining in Ghana.
17. June 2012 – Dons of the forest
A follow-up to “In The Interest of The State” operation to busted a ring of people who diverted and sold fertilizers meant for the cocoa farmer.
18. January 2012 – The Prez’s Assignment – Stealing the people’s power
A three-phase investigation into the power distribution sector in Ghana. Exposed acts of corruption on the part of employees of power distribution company ECG (electricity company of Ghana) and indebtedness on the part of individuals and companies.
19. May 2013: The Messiah of Mentukwa
The story of how one woman, Helen Jesus Christ, set up a church in a remote village in Ghana’s hinterland and convinced members that Jesus Christ was coming soon and they could only be saved if they cut themselves off the rest of the world. With that came physical abuse and children being denied access to school.
20. January 2013: Al Jazeera – People and power, how to rob Africa
This was a film on how African businesses fleece their governments and stash these stolen funds in off-shore accounts. With journalist Stanley Kwenda.
21. January 2013: Spirit child
Filmed in Northern Ghana, where Anas exposed the barbaric sacrifices of children who were believed to bring ill luck to their families. The story led to the arrest of some fetish priests, with Anas advocating for the prosecution of such persons.
22. November 2014: Al Jazeera Africa iInvestigates – Nigeria’s fake doctors
Anas teamed up with colleague Rosemary Nwaebuni to investigate the activities of quack doctors who risk the lives of vulnerable people in Nigeria. The film led to the arrest of two people who were using pharmacy shops and beer parlours as operating theaters for patients who were in desperate need of medical attention. It presents bogus doctors with no medical qualifications and little knowledge providing illegal abortions and the resultant fatal injuries.
23. December 2014: Ghana’s food for thought
Focuses on stealing and corruption in the process of supplying donated food to its intended recipients. Anas went undercover to expose the activities of some Ghana Health Service officers who ran a corrupt business selling food donated by the World Food Program (WFP) and destined free-of-charge to disadvantaged children in the north. Three people were arrested.
24. March 2014: Ghana sex mafia
Film built on the Chinese Sex Mafia story of February 2009. Tells the story of Chinese girls trafficked into Ghana and how Anas went undercover to bust the ring and testified in court leading to the prosecution of the traffickers. Barack Obama mentioned him a jewel Africa must protect.
25. April 2014: Ghana’s soul takers
This was a three part investigative documentary that was centered on road safety. The first part looked at driver licensing and the corruption and fraud it is fraught with.
The second installment, Doom – the silent killer next door, tells three social interest stories of how families lost loved ones to the carnage on Ghana’s roads, and highlighted some of the dangers associated with commercial transport.
The third part examines police corruption and the tacit contribution of Ghana’s traffic police (the Motor Traffic and Transport Department, MTTD) of the Police Service.
26. September 2015: Ghana judiciary scandal
It exposed widespread corruption within the judiciary and graphically showed court workers like clerks and bailiffs connive with a number of respected judges to influence court cases through bribes. 34 judges and magistrates were caught on a hidden camera receiving enticements of money, goats, sheep and even foodstuff. As a result, presumed robbers, murderers, drug traffickers, rapists and litigants in land cases went free. The film effectively created a deep and destabilizing crises of conscience in Ghanaian society.
27. December 2015: Nigeria’s baby farmers
Anas and investigative reporter Rosemary Nwaebuni went undercover to identify and expose some of those behind Nigeria’s baby trade. The trade exploits couples desperate for a baby and young pregnant single mothers — often stigmatised in a country where abortion is illegal except in the most dire medical emergency. It is also a trade that international NGOs have identified as sinister and out of control.
28. May 2018: Number 12
Anas focuses on corruption in the Ghana Football Association (GFA). Kwesi Nyantakyi – the President of the GFA – is filmed appearing to be soliciting for bribes from some football investors using the name of the President, Vice President and other senior members in Government.The President lodged a complaint about the conduct of Nyantakyi with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police Service. He was arrested and later granted bail.
After being provisionally banned by FIFA, Nyantakyi resigned as the president of Ghana Football Association, and quit his roles as a member of the FIFA Council, member of the FIFA Associations Committee, First Vice President of CAF and President of Zone B of the West African Football Union (WAFU).[6]
The Ghana Football Association was also dissolved.
29. June 2019: Torture Home
“Torture Home, when a man of god abuses children” is an investigation an Echoing Hill village orphanage run by Baptist Pastor Lawrence Lamina. It uncovers widespread child abuse, neglect and thievery of food donation at the hand of the pastor and his “caretakers”
30. Nov 2022 Galamsey economy.
He investigated a Minister of state at the finance ministry on corruption and influence peddling. He was relieved of his post and handed over to the security agencies to continue the investigations .
Anas started getting problems when his investigations involved Football administrators, Judges and Politicians.
With the above, if he is engaged in investigative terrorism as judge said, you can judge for yourself.
I see revenge in the judgement.
May Allah continue to guide Anas and his people.
Aameen
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