I was nearly burnt alive - Beaten GHOne journalist narrates his ordeal

A GHOne Journalist, Reynold Dadzie alias Paa Akwasi who was subjected to severe beatings by irate Asawase Zongo youth, has revealed that he was nearly burnt alive but for a timely intervention of one of the demonstrators.

According to him, while he was being beaten others suggested they set him on fire until one of them mustered courage and disagreed with such a heinous proposition.

He subsequently stopped the others from further punching the innocent journalist by the youth who were protesting the killing of seven of their colleagues.

Paa Akwasi disclosed that his crime was taking a footage of their standoff with the police which some of them claim it was meant to serve as evidence in order to get them arrested and thrown behind bars.

His camera was in the process destroyed while he was rescued with a swollen face and has since been treated and discharged.

The journalist who has broken teeth and swollen eyes from the blows, slaps and kicks he received from the Zongo youth over his coverage of their rampage after his discharge from the hospital, has lodged an official complaint with the police.

Some youth from Asawase Zongo last Thursday stormed the Kumasi Central Mosque in the Ashanti Region, burning tyres in apparent protest to recent shootings of seven residents by the police. War songs were chanted while they mounted roadblocks in front of the Kumasi Central mosque, demanding justice for the killings.