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Two persons have appeared before an Adentan Circuit Court for allegedly making offensive and abusive statements against President John Mahama.
Priscilla Duah Birago, a 29-year-old National Service Person, and Charity Dede Tetteh, also 29, a beautician, are alleged to have made the statements on August 6, 2025, during a live-streaming discussion on social media.
“We would have been happier if the President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, was involved in the helicopter crash and dwarfs had eaten him up, and that a lot of people are dying under his tenure of office”, the two were alleged to have said among other abusive words.
The court, presided over by Mrs Angela Attachie, did not take their pleas and remanded them into police custody to reappear on September 2, 2025.
This was after the prosecution, led by Chief Inspector Maxwell Lanyo, prayed the court to remand the accused persons pending further investigations.
The facts before the court are that the Republic of Ghana is the complainant.
On August 6, 2025, the two accused persons hosted a live-streamed discussion on their social media platform, TikTok, during which they made those offensive statements, a conduct, prosecution said, was likely to provoke a breach of peace.
It said Birago disseminated those remarks on her TikTok account named “Abena Birago”.
The accused persons were, thus, arrested by law enforcement agencies for investigation.
A forensic capture of the live stream was obtained as evidence.
Investigations were ongoing, the prosecution said.
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