VIDEO: Anas Aremeyaw Anas nearly killed in Malawi

Ace Ghanaian investigative and undercover reporter, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, nearly died with his colleagues during his latest undercover piece “Malawi’s Human Harvest”.

The investigative story for the BBC sought to unravel the issues surrounding the mysterious deaths of many in Malawi for ritual purposes triggered a mob in a Malawian village to resort to killing the investigative reporter and his crew.

The story, which airs today on the BBC’s Africa Eye network and the Facebook page would see the reporters digging deep into the dark world of the killers and capturing chilling footage of alleged murderers.

In a teaser of the video which has been released by the BBC, the journalist and his colleagues are heard screaming for help which seems to suggest they have been attacked by one of their targets in the course of investigations.

The details of how the townsfolk nearly killed the reporters would be live on the BBC today for African viewers. Popularly known as Muhti, human bodies are harvested and dismembered to supply powerful people in society. These human body parts are believed to possess some abilities to make people not just rich, but also very powerful in the Malawian and Tanzanian societies.

In this epic investigative film, Mathias Kamanga, a Malawian, claims to have a deep working knowledge of the human body based Muhti and “blood sucking”. He says, between himself and his associate Njuku Mpata (also known as Joseph Mwakigunga), they have killed 12 people including children as young as five.

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