TikToker Camilla Alhassan has been sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to offensive conduct and publication of false news over videos she posted about President John Dramani Mahama.
In a video captured by nsemwokrom.com‘s King Bygone, Alhassan was seen being escorted to prison by a heavy police presence.
The 43-year-old content creator was arrested on Friday, July 10, by the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police Service. She was arraigned before Accra Circuit Court 1 the same day and pleaded guilty to all charges before Her Honour Emmanuella Asmah.
The court did not sentence her immediately. It deferred the matter to Thursday, July 16, and ordered her to undergo a pregnancy test before judgment. She was remanded into prison custody in the meantime.
The charges came from a series of videos Alhassan posted on TikTok between June 30 and July 5, after the floods and fire outbreaks that hit parts of Accra.
In the videos, she claimed Mahama had sacrificed 32 cows to secure political power. She also alleged that the government’s distribution of sanitary pads to victims of the June 29 flood was meant to cover up those sacrifices. Prosecutors said the claims were not backed by any evidence.
In a follow-up video, Alhassan tried to distance herself from the claims. “I’m not the one who said it, it was my pastor,” she said.
She had posted a video on July 7 saying she received a call from police headquarters inviting her to the CID, and that her brother would go with her. The next day she posted again, saying she had not honoured the invitation because she could not go alone. Police arrested her two days later.
Alhassan is known on TikTok for her political commentary and her support for the opposition New Patriotic Party.
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Her case adds to a growing list of content creators arrested under the same provisions this year. TikToker Mahama Aminat was arrested on May 26 over alleged threats against the President and First Lady Lordina Mahama. Pastor William Gyimah was arrested and remanded on April 7 over alleged death threats against Vice President Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang. Isaac Boafo, known online as Duabo King, was picked up by the Police Intelligence Directorate on March 1.
The Media Foundation for West Africa and other civil society groups have criticised the use of these provisions, calling them disproportionate for speech offences.
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