{"id":741948,"date":"2022-01-09T16:54:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/09\/fake-john-mahama-in-trouble\/"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:54:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:54:15","slug":"fake-john-mahama-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/09\/fake-john-mahama-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake John Mahama In Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>9th January 2022<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e48254e2beb04d9ca83f272859f15443\"\/>Economic hardship has pushed one Gabriel Agah into trouble. The 39 year old is laughing at the wrong side of his mouth after he defrauded a businessman to the tune of GHC 150,000.00.<\/p>\n<p>Agah was arrested by the police for using the name of former President John Dramani Mahama to dupe unsuspecting businessman.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chief Superintendent Kofi Blagodzi, Ashanti Regional Head of Legal and Prosecution of Ghana Police Service, the accused person was arrested by the police in Kumasi on December 12, 2021, based upon a tip off.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/eeb33b6342cf4aadafa009aebe2fdb58.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He told a Kumasi based circuit court presided by Jacqueline Avotri that the police received information that Gabriel Agah had collected Ghc 50,000 from one Nana Opoku Agyemang, a businessman with the promise of giving hims a landed property worth GHC 150,000. He said the fraudsater was going for additional Ghc100, 000, when the police arrested him. <\/p>\n<p>The police added that the accused started by opened several social media accounts with the name and pictures of John Dramani Mahama and pretended to be the former president. He lured people to pay money to him with a promise to get them a landed properties  houses and parcels of land.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/635c5ce98da846e2b2f018a1eec96387.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In the specific matter that got him arrested, the police said after Nana Agyemang made the initial payment, the fake John Mahama asked for the remaining GHC 100,000 before the said property is released. The business man demanded to meet the supposed John Mahama before the payment is made. This was initially agreed to by Agah. However the supposed John Mahama (Gabriel Agah) told the Nana Opoku later that his schedule was so tight that he couldn&#8217; t meet him in person. He told the man he was sending one of his aides to meet him and this was agreed to by the businessman.<\/p>\n<p>However, the businessman went with police who arrested Gabriel Agah and brought him to justice.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/707ffd46095d4045b2f4595e5579f643\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The court after hearing the plea of Gabriel Agah granted him to a Ghc 100,000 bail with three sureties, one of which should be justified with a landed property.<\/p>\n<p>This was after the prosecution had made a plea to the court to remand the accused person to give the police more space to complete their investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Leave your comments below. Like and share this story.<\/p>\n<p>CitizenOne<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: CitizenOne (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nGabriel Agah<br \/>\nJacqueline Avotri<br \/>\nJohn Mahama<br \/>\nKumasi<br \/>\nNana Opoku Agyemang<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9th January 2022 Economic hardship has pushed one Gabriel Agah into trouble. The 39 year old is laughing at the wrong side of his mouth after he defrauded a businessman to the tune of GHC 150,000.00. Agah was arrested by the police for using the name of former President John Dramani Mahama to dupe unsuspecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":741949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}