{"id":238765,"date":"2026-07-15T19:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-social-media-influencer-arrested-for-making-false-claims-against-president\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:13:19","slug":"west-africa-social-media-influencer-arrested-for-making-false-claims-against-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-social-media-influencer-arrested-for-making-false-claims-against-president\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Social Media Influencer Arrested for Making False Claims Against President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">On July 10, 2026, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service arrested 43-year-old social media influencer, Camilla Alhassan, over claims she made on TikTok about Ghana&#8217;s president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">In a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@camilaalhassan7\/video\/7657091203841690887?_r=1&amp;_t=ZS-981tpTwnmEi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">videos<\/a> posted on TikTok, between June 30 and July 5, 2026, Alhassan claimed President John Dramani Mahama had sacrificed 32 cows to secure political power, and alleged that the government&#8217;s initiative to distribute sanitary pads to victims of the June 29 flood was intended to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607150076.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 10, 2026, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service arrested 43-year-old social media influencer, Camilla Alhassan, over claims she made on TikTok about Ghana&#8217;s president. In a series of videos posted on TikTok, between June 30 and July 5, 2026, Alhassan claimed President John Dramani Mahama had sacrificed 32 cows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4304,8117,7556,4509,38904,7717,4959,257,2450,3577,254,4375],"class_list":["post-238765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-claims","tag-false","tag-ghana-news","tag-influencer","tag-making","tag-media","tag-news","tag-president","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}