GJA wants OSP to stop harassing Gordon Asare Bediako

The President of the Ghana Journalists Association, Mr Albert Kwabena Dwumfour, says lawyers of the association have been directed to file court processes to stop the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) from harassing one of its members – Gordon Asare Bediako.

Speaking at a news conference in Accra on Wednesday, this week, Mr Dwumfuor said “we have directed our lawyers to file an application for an injunction to restrain the OSP from engaging in any further acts of harassment or undue interference with Asare-Bediako.

We remain committed to upholding the rule of law and ensuring that justice is served within the boundaries of legal authority. The Special Prosecutor must focus on his mandate as Special Prosecutor and not deviate from it to become ‘Special Persecutor.”

On April 2, 2025 around 1 O’clock in the afternoon, Mr Asare-Bediako, who is the Managing Editor of ABC News had a call from someone, who identified himself as an Officer of the OSP, and that he was at Wontumi Radio 95.9 and Movement TV to have a conversation with him.

Gordon Asare-Bediako went to the OSP premises on his own volition around 2pm, with the understanding that they were going to have a conversation, since that wasn’t the first time that as a journalist, he was having an informal conversation with security officials and Capos.

He was thus referred to a statement he made on Movement TV, where he hosts the morning show about two weeks earlier, to the effect that the OSP had at a point in time requested from government a private jet to facilitate his operations, since he was a higher risk personality, which the journalist confirmed making such a statement on air, based on his sources within the then government.

The Special Prosecutor claimed he was impugning corruption on the OSP, which he vehemently disagreed. His refusal to mention his source was interpreted to mean that he was not cooperating with the investigations. He was then officially put under arrest and his rights read to him.

He was subsequently put on a GHC5m bail bond with 2 sureties. He has since been reporting to the OSP.

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