Accra, May 13, GNA – A 24 year-old security man who allegedly circulated a video inciting the public to burn the house of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and kill police officers over COVID-19 measures is being prosecuted for assault on Public Officer.
Bless Amedegbe, aka Don Dada Bless, is also facing a charge of False Communication contrary to Section 76(1) of the Electronic Communication Act, 2008 (Act 775).
Amedegbe, who appeared before an Accra Circuit Court, on Wednesday, is said to have taken the action because he believed the global pandemic was a hoax.
He has, however, denied the charges and the Court, presided over by Mr. Emmanuel Essandoh, has remanded him into Police custody to reappear on May 21.
Prosecuting, Detective Sergeant Frederick Sarpong, said the complainant was an operative of the Bureau of National Communication, National Security; whiles Amedegbe resided at Maamobi.
Sergeant Sarpong said in April this year, after the President announced the restriction of movement order in the Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi Metropolitan areas, Amedegbe took video shots of himself and circulated same via YouTube and WhatsApp Platforms, inciting the public to defy the President’s Executive Orders on the lockdown.
The Prosecution said the accused described the President’s social distancing directive as a result of the COVID-19 as ‘a hoax’, claiming the President was going to allow telecommunication companies to install 5G network, which would cause deaths.
According to the Prosecutor, he, consequently, incited the public to rise up against the President and set his house ablaze.
Amedegbe, in his self-made video, also incited the public to kill any police officer executing COVID-19 duties.
On May 12, this year, Amedegbe, who was being tracked, was arrested.
In his investigation caution statement, the Prosecution said, he admitted having made and circulated the misleading video on his WhatsApp and YouTube platforms.
GNA