A prominent Ghanaian pop culture journalist and TV Host with 3Music TV, Olele Salvador, is being chastised by an X user for his comments over an alleged assault against social media personality Albert Nat Hyde, popularly referred to as Bongo Ideas, by some men said to be policemen.

Albert Nat Hyde has shared chilling details of an alleged abduction and torture he recently endured. Several weeks ago, Bongo Ideas was reported to have been arrested by state security agents. Curiously, both the police and national security agencies later disavowed any knowledge of his detention.

After days of uncertainty, he was eventually released, but not unscathed. During an engagement with DW Africa, the social commentator recounted how he was dragged out of his room by some men, disguised as policemen.

The said policemen forced, he said, their way into his room around 3am on 14th March 2024.

This comes after Bongo Ideas made some scathing remarks about the president and his wife , where he described her as a trophy wife during the first lady's birthday celebration.

According to him, the supposed policemen warned him to never speak about the president after giving him a good beating.

Reacting to this, Olele Salvador described Bongo Ideas as a "cyber bully". According to him, the narrative where Bongo Ideas is being seen as "a martyr of free speech" is false due to his consistent attacks on individuals.

"That reportage positioned the notorious cyber bully as “a martyr of free speech” to an uninitiated audience when in actual fact he’s not. At best, half truth. This is where others believe if extensive research was done, he wouldn’t have been the ‘best’ example to use in that video. Why weren’t the tweet(s) by the individual captured in the video used in provisional examples about the subject in the intro? Are you suggesting DW didn’t see the tweet(s) from the same individual? & supposing they did, why didn’t they amplify them for better context?" he quizzed.

In response, X user, Abdul Hameed stated that it is unfair for Salvador to justify the attack against Bongo Ideas.

"So Bongo Ideas deserves torture and beatings from unknown assailants because he is a cyber bully who harasses people online? That's the punishment for a bully in a democratic country? And people like @OleleSalvador justify this with no shame? Amazing!"

But Olele Salvador noted that he has no issue with Bongo but the

Because among other things, the media has an ethical responsibility ensuring that the ‘presentation’ of the news does not mislead the audience about the subject(s); broader implications & the societal impact must be considered. This where I have an issue with DW & not the said individual or what should be allowed in democracy or not.