text: Liberia: Police Detain Ghanaian Journalist Overnight in Relation to 'False News' Complaint - allAfrica.com
  On April 1, in Accra, the capital, four police officers in plainclothes arrested Tamakloe, editor-in-chief of the privately owned Whatsup News website, and detained him for about 24 hours at the city's National Police Headquarters, seized his two phones and mobile hotspot, and then released him on bail on April 2, according to Tamakloe, who spoke with CPJ in a phone interview, and a report by the privately owned Myjoyonline news website.
  "Authorities in Ghana should be focused on protecting journalists like David Tamakloe, instead of coming up with new ways to harass and intimidate them," said Angela Quintal, CPJ's Africa program coordinator, in New York. "There was no reason to arrest or detain Tamakloe, or to seek access to his phones; any investigation into the journalist and his work should be dropped immediately."
  During his detention, officers told Tamakloe that Buah had filed a complaint against him, he said. The police statement accused Tamakloe of attempting to commit "extortion" and "publication of false news" under Sections 18, 151, and 208 of the 1960 Criminal Offences Act.
  Tamakloe told CPJ that police declined to give him a copy of Buah's complaint. He said that Buah requested the April 1 interview after he called her on March 31 for comment while reporting on authorities' alleged seizure of shipping containers belonging to Buah's shipping company.
  During his interrogation at the police headquarters, a police commander accused Tamakloe of being a corrupt journalist, and Stephen DacostaOkyere, a businessman who attended the interrogation along with the commander, accused Tamakloe of making false publications about him and threatened to "deal with" the journalist, Tamakloe told CPJ.
  On March 23, Whatsup News published an investigation alleging that Okyere had used his influence within Ghana's security forces to settle a personal dispute. Tamakloe told CPJ said he did not know how Okyere was linked to his arrest or the case against him.
  CPJ called and texted Buah for comment, but she did not respond. When CPJ called Okyere, he declined to comment about his involvement with Tamakloe's case.
  When CPJ called Ghana's National police spokesperson, Sheila KessieAbayie-Buckman, she referred CPJ to the Criminal Investigation Department's Head of Public Affairs, Juliana Obeng. Obeng requested CPJ's question be sent via email; CPJ sent those questions yesterday, today Obeng responded that they would be forwarded to another representative for a response.
  In 2020, CPJ documented Ghana police's acquisition of digital forensics technology designed to access and extract information from phones and computers.