Arsonists petrol-bomb Class Media Group’s Labone HQ

Arsonists attacked Class Media Group’s Labone headquarters in Accra with petrol bombs and stones on Thursday morning around 2 am.

The media company’s CCTV cameras captured four men on motorbikes as the suspects.

They hurled the petrol bombs over the fence wall into the media house, destroying the glass wall and door of the reception.

Media houses and journalists have come under all forms of attack in the past few years.

In other instances, thugs have broken into the studios of radio and TV stations to either manhandle a presenter or interrupt live shows.

Iddrisu Hardi Pagazaa, a former deputy northern regional communications officer of the main opposition NDC and one other person, were reported to the police for storming into the studios of one of CMG's media houses, Dagbon FM, in the Northern Region, on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, which coincidentally was World Press Freedom Day, to attack and assault a journalist.

The victim, Abubakar Saddique Gariba, hosts an evening political talk show on Dagbon 102.5 FM.