The Difference Between A Person Considered a Wacko and A Person Who Is Known To Tell The Truth

I sit here, alive, posting this to my blog.

A reporter in Ghana is not so fortunate.  (Deadspin with the report.)

Ahmed Hussein-Suale was killed by two hidden armed gunmen in Ghana.

Hussein-Suale was part of the undercover project Number 12, exposing corruption throughout the national soccer federation.

And readers of this blog should not be completely unfamiliar with the situation in Ghana with respect to international match-fixing:

• A critical 2014 World Cup match almost did not take place until cars with cash for Ghanian team were sped through the streets of Brazil.  The players eventually posed with some of the cash, and then probably threw their match to ensure Germany and the United States went through.  (Here's that post.)
• And several other things (unfortunately, three YouTube videos I posted to show the Ghana farce with Portugal that day have been removed, so you'd need to find a highlight reel of the Ghana-Portugal game which featured an own goal by Ghana, and the match-winner being a ball deliberately double-fisted in the penalty area...  right at the feet of Cristiano Ronaldo.
• A 2013 U-20 World Cup controversy between Ghana and Chile, this one rigged FOR Ghana, as two Chilean defenders took a dive to ensure Ghana would score an extra-time winner in their knockout match just seconds from a shootout.  (It also had a video that got yanked.)
• Read this, from a pre-2014 World Cup expose from Declan Hill, which includes this from the then-President of the Ghanian soccer federation...

"“In every competition you find gamblers around,” said Kwesi Nyantakyi, president of the Ghana Football Association. “Yes, every competition. Every competition, they are there. It is done all the time in major competitions. In all the major tournaments, World Cup, Cup of Nations.”"

• And then this note, from the same article:

"In fact, a 2007 match was believed fixed when the Singaporeans were seen around the Ghanian goalkeeping coach.  It turns out that he had been working with them for a decade!"

And most of this was just 2013-2014...

It can easily make one understand why "certain people" (Dan Tan, Football 4 U, and operatives of both within the country of Ghana) would want to silence people like Hussein-Suale.

It is the difference between someone, like myself, viewed a wacko for sports conspiracy theory -- and someone for whom they know it's the truth, he speaks it, gets the information out there...

... and is killed because of it.

And then, word that the murder was actually encouraged (and probably ordered) by a member of Ghanian Parliament!  

Sad news, but we shall not be silenced. Rest in peace, Ahmed. #JournalismIsNotACrime #SayNoToCorruption pic.twitter.com/Gk2Jdgo6Sn

— Anas Aremeyaw Anas (@anasglobal) January 17, 2019

The man in the video is Kennedy Agyapong, who doxxed Hussein-Suale on Ghanian national television, all but ordering his execution.

Rest in peace, Ahmed Hussein-Suale -- and in power.