A sketch showing the faces of the alleged murderers of investigative journalist, Ahmed Hussein-Suale, has popped up a year after unknown assailants pumped bullets into him.
Information picked up by theghanareport.com indicates that the sketch has been with the security services including the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and the Ghana Police Service since March last year.
A spokesperson for Suale’s family, Mr Ibrahim Kamil told theghanareport.com that the family first saw the portraits two months after Suale’s death.
“We saw it with the security services. They told us that they were working on the portraits of the killers and adding finishing touches to it but it was not made public,” he said.
“The sketch is not public until now” that a one-year commemorative service is being organised to mark the bloody incident.
Suale’s family has been complaining about the lack of breakthrough for the case that shocked the world.
Almost a month after Suale’s murder, the Ghana Police Service announced in February 2019 that it was looking for cartographers to use information gathered by investigators to sketch the images of the alleged killers of the undercover journalist who worked at Tiger PI, together with a celebrated undercover reporter, Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
According to the police, they had received descriptions of the persons who shot and killed Suale near his family home at Madina in Accra on January 16, 2019. The cops said they would require experts to give an artistic impression to the faces described by witnesses.
“A lot of people have described them (the killers) and we are also trying to get cartographers who can give us an artistic impression about who they are, to help in identifying them. So far that is where we are,” the then Director of Public Affairs, ACP David Senanu Eklu told journalists.
But a year down the line, there is no sign of the artist impression of the murderers.
However, on Thursday, a not-for-profit journalism platform, forbiddenstories.org, released the portrait which it says identifies the alleged murderers but eyewitnesses to the heinous crime are not willing to speak to the police for fear of being victimised.