The Kumasi-based journalist with Ashh Fm, Daasebre Adjei Dwamena has finally been found after three weeks of fruitless efforts to trace his whereabouts.
Management of the station and his family are still unwilling to disclose how Daasebre Adjei Dwamena who disappeared since December 7, 2016 was found and set to address a press conference on the matter later this week.
Several persons in the inky fraternity prior to his discovery, raised funds as reward for anyone who will provide vital information leading to him being found dead or alive.
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP Bernard Antwi Bosiako who initiated the move, gave GH?10,000 to management of the station to in turn hand over to anyone who will provide the police with information leading to either the arrest of persons holding the journalist hostage or his whereabouts.
A group calling itself “Society of Adventists in Media” (SAM) of which the missing journalist is a member, has also made various contributions in monetary terms to that effect bringing the amount to GH?32,000.
Dasebre Adjei Dwamena it would be recalled, disappeared since December 7, 2016 after it emerged that he traveled to at Akyeremade,his hometown.
It is not immediately known if the journalist was abducted or was involved in accident but sources at the station claim on the day of the election, he went to the area to exercise his franchise and was scheduled to report for his station in and around Kokofu in the Bekwai Constituency on the election day but nothing has since been heard of him.
Neither his employers nor family and friends have had knowledge of his whereabouts’ and all attempts to reach him on his cell phone till date has been successful as the phone is reported to have been switched off.
The last time he was seen on WhatsApp was December 7 at 6.13am with the Status post: “I am proud of myself and am very grateful to God for making me who I am”.
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