Shot on duty: A Ghanaian journalist’s five-year struggle for recovery

“My daily routine now is waiting for medical appointments. I have undergone five surgeries, and I am still not okay,” Pius Asiedu recounts his ordeal, almost whispering to himself, his voice heavy with tiredness, as he stares at the ceiling of a small room in Dansoman, Accra. “I kept asking myself, when will the time come for me to be out of this bandage?” For five years, that question has followed him everywhere — from the hospital corridors he knows too well to the crutches that dictate his pace and the uncertainty of a life interrupted. A journalist by training and passion, his career came to an abrupt halt in 2020, not because of a lack of skill or ambition, but because of a gunshot fired while he was on duty covering the general elections — a bullet that tore through more than just his leg.

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