24-year-old social media influencer arrested for spreading fake news MyJoyOnline.com [Video]

A 24-year-old has been remanded and awaiting trial for disseminating fake news on social media to incite the public to commit crime.

Bless Amedegbe is reported to have made claims in a recorded video in which he incited the public to defy the imposed restriction directive by the President aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus in the country.

In the said video which went viral during Ghana’s lockdown period, Bless claimed the Stay at home initiative was a hoax and it was a ploy by government to install 5G cables in the affected areas.

According to him, these 5G cables were to kill Ghanaians.

In the video, Amedegbe asked, “Don’t you people see that they are always digging dredges in town? And what do you think they are using those dredges for?”

It was a matter of time as National Security Operatives came across the video, tracked and arrested …