Ahmed Hussein-Suale

Ahmed Hussein-Suale (5 December 1987 – 16 January 2019) was a Ghanaian undercover investigative journalist and an associate of fellow Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.^[2] He died on Wednesday, 16 January 2019 when unidentified men on motorbikes shot him three times, twice in the chest and once in his neck in his vehicle.^[3][4]

Ahmed Hussein-Suale
Born	(1987-12-05)5 December 1987[1] Accra, Ghana
Died	16 January 2019(2019-01-16) (aged 31) Accra, Ghana
Cause of death	assassinated
Occupation	Investigative journalist
Website	www.tigereyepi.org

Notable investigative works

Ahmed was a member of the investigative firm Tiger Eye Private Investigations which investigated corruption in the Ghana Football Association named Number 12, which led to the removal of office and a lifetime ban of its President Kwesi Nyantakyi.^[5] In response, Kennedy Agyapong – a Ghanaian member of parliament – called for retaliation against Hussein-Suale.^[3]

He was also part of an investigative journalism piece in collaboration with the BBC into human body parts sold for ritual magic in Malawi.^[6]

Assassination

Ahmed was murdered on 16 January 2019 in his vehicle by two unidentified men on motorbikes.^[7] He was shot twice in the chest and once in the neck.^[8]

On 16 January 2020, a renowned international journalist, Guillaume Perrier published findings of a private investigation into the murder of Ahmed Hussein Suale as part of Forbidden Stories. He alleges that the Ghana Police Service failed to follow up on a key lead.^[9][10]

Kwei Quartey dedicates his novel "The Missing American" to Ahmed with these words, "To Ahmed Hussein-Suale, a Ghanaian journalist martyred on Wednesday, January 16, 2019". (2020: Soho Press, NY, NY, page v.)