Manasseh Azure Awuni is a Ghanaian investigative journalist and former founding Editor-in-Chief of The Fourth Estate.[1][2] He previously worked with Multimedia Group Limited in Accra, Ghana.[3]
His investigative and anti-corruption reports have caused national uproar and resulted in some government officials going to prison.[4] He spends his leisure time speaking at youth programmes and anti-corruption seminars.
Manasseh Azure Awuni was the Editor-in-Chief, The Fourth Estate which is a non-profit, public-interest journalism project founded by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).
Azure began his career as a freelance journalist before joining the Multimedia Group Limited in 2012.[7] where he was the head of investigation at Joy FM and Joy News, subsidiaries of MGL.
Controversies
Azure's work has always stirred national controversy, notably concerning the Mahama Ford saga.[8] He broke a story in 2016 when the then president, John Mahama, received a Ford Expedition gift from a Burkinabé contractor. Many groups called for an investigation into the saga.[9] The gift was believed to be a return favour for a contract given to the businessman. The story damaged Mahama's second term bid.
In 2019, Azure and Joy FM broadcast a documentary titled "Militia in the heart of the nation"[10] which detailed how a private and unlicensed security group affiliated to the governing New Patriotic Party operated from the seat of a government annexe, the Osu Castle. The government denied the story, as expected, but various government spokespersons contradicted one another.[11]
The De-Eye group also sued Azure and the media house.[12] The group abandoned the suit when Azure and the Multimedia Group filed their defence. The journalist has however, won similar defamation suits against those he has investigated.[13]
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