"U FAIL 2 heed 2 our warning. U leave us with no option than to carry out da threat. Today we followed ur son frm da g.i.s junction to ahinimansa hse. At asylum down behind nigara hotel. He was driving dark benz gr 8o57 r. He was wearing a dark suit. He was only saved when I was called 2 da tsikata trail. He will not be lucky next time. As 4 ur informant he cant hide frm us. AHUUUUUYA” This was the chilling text message sent to Gina Blay, Chief Executive Officer of Western Publications Ltd, publishers of the Daily Guide yesterday afternoon. Information reaching The Statesman as at press time yesterday intimated that the police had been informed about the above threat. Last week this paper carried a report about a similar threat on Gina Blay, Chief Executive Officer of Western Publications Ltd. publishers of the Daily Guide newspaper, in respect of a publication in that paper headlined, “J J IS MAD”. The threat was from a man who called himself Gajekpo, who claimed to be a soldier in the Ghana Armed Forces. The Statesman indicated that according to Gina Blay, the so-called Gajekpo called her on mobile phone No. 0243507331 and asked whether she was the editor of the Daily Guide, to which she replied that the editor had travelled abroad to do a course. Gajekpo then reportedly questioned why her paper had published a story with the headline, “J J IS MAD”, and threatened, “You will see”, “We would deal with you” Furthermore, the caller asked Gina some cynical questions like “Who killed Mobila”, “Who killed Ya Na”? A week earlier, a Supreme Court Judge was threatened verbally and then through text messages after the incarceration of Tsatsu Tsikata, former Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Corporation and a key figure of the opposition National Democratic Congress. Media practitioners in this country have been subjected to all forms of mental and physical torture, for publishing stories that might not have gone well with some people. Years ago human excreta was smeared at the offices of the then Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper as well as the residence of the publisher and editor then, Nana Kofi Koomson. The premises of The Crusading Guide also suffered a similar ordeal. Recently, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Ghana Journalists' Association, Emmanuel Ennin, was shot dead by unknown assailants, all in an attempt to ostensibly intimidate journalists and stifle freedom of speech. Source: The Statesman