The Editor for the Online News Portal Modern Ghana Emmanuel Ajarfor is expected to report to the Ministries Police Station today following his arrest and detention by the National Security Secretariat.

Emmanuel Ajarfor and a journalist of Modern Ghana, Emmanuel Britwum were detained last Thursday by National Security operatives after their office was raided following an opinion piece published about the Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, and the governing New Patriotic Party’s MP for Effutu Constituency, Alexander Afenyo-Markin in relation to happenings at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW).

Laptops belonging to the online media outfit were also seized in the cause of the raid. According to the Editor, he was beaten, slapped and inflicted with a conducted electrical weapon popularly called taser.

“They questioned me for about an hour and then the beating started because they said I have to confess. I was tortured; every question came with a slap. When they ask anything and before I could say anything then the slaps,” he told Accra-based Joy FM on Monday, I July 2019.

He said the operatives got infuriated and intensified the assault on him any time the national security officials were unconvinced about his responses to their questions.

“When I give an answer and they are not satisfied then they give me a slap. They used the electrical shocker to shock my body”, he narrated, adding: “From there, they made me go through the military style where I have to lean against the wall with legs up and head down as if I’m doing a press up then they gave me a huge slap at my back then I fell and one guy used his elbow on my backbone”.

Meanwhile, a statement issued on Tuesday morning by the National Security Council has denied the alleged assault on the two journalists and further requested for a medical examination to prove the claims of the Mr.Emmanuel Ajarfor Abugri.

The Secretariat added that it takes a very serious view of the torture allegations it says are only a deliberate attempt by the suspect, Emmanuel Ajarfor Abugri, to discredit the investigations and the case against him.

“Torture and manhandling of suspects are not part and parcel of the culture and architecture of the secretariat under the administration of President Akufo-Addo. We wish to categorically state that the suspect, during questioning, was never manhandled, neither was he subjected to any form of forced physical contact,” the statement said.

Bellow is a copy of the statement: