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Armed police officers besiege Citi FM to arrest journalist

A team of about seven heavily armed police officers besieged the premises of Citi FM and Citi TV in an attempt to arrest a journalist.

Zoe Abu-Baidoo, a broadcast journalist with Citi FM and Citi TV had been targeted in the raid after the police accused her of receiving some video files from her colleague, Caleb Kudah.

Mr. Kudah, also a broadcast journalist and host of BackPage on Citi TV, had been accused of filming at the car park of the Ministry of National Security, a supposed restricted security zone on Tuesday, and had sent the videos to Zoe via WhatsApp. In an attempt to arrest Zoe after tagging her as Caleb Kudah’s accomplice, the heavily armed officers besieged the premises of Citi FM/Citi TV in three different vehicles.

May 11, 2021

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• https://citinewsroom.com/2021/05/armed-police-officers-besiege-citi-fm-to-arrest-journalist/
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