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Claim: A Facebook user shared a flyer alleging that Shamima Muslim has asked that people stop calling on President John Mahama to stop “galamsay.”
Verdict: False. The flyer is fabricated, and the claim is false, as Shamima and NewsAfrika have denied the claim and the flyer.
Full Text
A Facebook user, Jennifer Oforiwaah Queen, shared a flyer in a post suggesting that Shamima Muslim has called on people to stop pressuring the president to stop illegal mining when there are state agencies responsible for that.
The Facebook user captioned the post “Just imagine.”
A screenshot of the flyer.
As of Sep. 20, 2025, the post had garnered 411 reactions, 878 comments, and 61 shares, with several others vilifying the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s communications team member.
“Yooo, we hear you. Power drunk,” Mahamood Bawumia Admuda Adams commented.
Another user, Adama Amadu Gbankor, commented, “ Clueless Shamima, we heard you.”
DUBAWA decided to investigate the flyer because it could influence conversation about the trending illegal mining issue, locally known as “galamsay” in Ghana.
Verification
DUBAWA conducted a Google keyword search to ascertain whether there had been any publications on the issue.
Seeing that the flyer cited NewsAfrika as its source, DUBAWA thoroughly checked all NewsAfrika pages on social media for the flyer dated “26th February, 2025,” but found none.
We further contacted NewsAfrika to ascertain if the flyer emanated from their outlet. Evans Oppong, the owner of NewsAfrika, confirmed that the flyer did not emanate from him.
“This is not from NewsAfrika,” he stated in his response to the researcher.
We also found that Shamima Muslim, the current government spokesperson, in a Facebook post described the viral flyer as fake and asked her followers to disregard it.
“The NPP hatchet conveyers of fake news have started again,” she stated, tagging the flyer as “fake.”
As of the time of this publication, no major news outlet had reported on Shamima making such comments.
Conclusion
The flyer alleging that Shamima has urged people to call on state agencies to stop “galamsay” rather than the President is fabricated.
