Camilla Alhassan
Ghanaian TikToker, Camilla Alhassan, has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment by a Circuit Court in Accra for making some unsubstantiated claims about President John Mahama in the run up to the 2024 general election.
She was dragged before the court on July 10, 2026, where she pleaded guilty to the charge of offensive conduct and publication of false news.
Camilla Alhassan, 43, was arrested on Friday, July 10, 2026, after she had claimed in a series of TikTok videos that President Mahama had sacrificed 32 cows to win the 2024 presidential election.
She made the claims in response to the recent floods and fire outbreaks that hit parts of Accra, resulting in the loss of lives and properties.
Camilla Alhassan further claimed that government’s decision to distribute sanitary pads to flood victims was a ploy to cover up the alleged sacrifices undertaken by the President.
She also wished death on the President and his wife, while making a further allegation bordering on infidelity against the President.
“These offensive and abusive statements against the President of the Republic of Ghana are likely to provoke a breach of the peace,” a court document alleged.
She pleaded guilty to the charges and was remanded by the court, presided over by Her Honour Emmanuella Asmah, who had deferred her sentencing pending a pregnancy test.
Before her sentencing, her lawyers prayed the court to temper justice with mercy and pleaded for leniency.
The court, however, noted the rapid surge in such utterances on social media and said there was the need to impose a sentence that serves a deterrent.
A video of Camilla Alhassan being escorted to court under heavy police security surfaced online yesterday, sparking mixed reactions about the need for such security measures given the nature of the offence.
Before her arrest, she had uploaded another video claiming that a woman identifying herself as an officer of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service had contacted her and instructed her to report to the CID Headquarters or risk being arrested.
She told her followers she was going to turn herself in voluntarily, adding that her brother would escort her to the police headquarters.
Her sentencing comes just a little over a month after another TikToker, Mahama Aminat, who allegedly threatened the life of President John Mahama and First Lady Lordina Mahama on social media, was admitted to a bail of GH¢1 million with three sureties.
Two of the sureties must provide documents of a landed property while the third must be a civil servant earning not less than GH¢5,000 a month.
Mahama Aminat was dragged before a Circuit Court on one count of offensive conduct conducive to the breach of the peace and another charge of threat of death.
Court documents indicate that the 26-year-old trader, on May 19, used unprintable words aimed at the President and his wife “with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or by which the breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned.”
BY Gibril Abdul Razak