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Claim: Multiple social media users share a picture claiming various stacks of dollars were captured in Sammy Gyamfi’s car.
Verdict: False. DUBAWA’s checks reveal that the image first appeared online in September 2023.
Full Text
The National Democratic Congress’ communications director and acting head of Ghana GoldBod, Sammy Gyamfi, was criticised by the general public several hours after he was seen giving an undisclosed amount of money in dollars to Evangelist Mama Pat, popularly known as Nana Agradaa.
The rage comes at a time when the new Code of Conduct for government appointees was just launched.
Several social media and political commentators have condemned the act. Some have called on the president to take decisive action against his appointee because they believe it was a wrong act by Sammy Gyamfi.
In the heat of the moment, an X user, @rgyamfi107, shared an image in a post claiming various stacks of dollars were found in Sammy Gyamfi’s car.
“NDC’s chief communicator car oooo. Power sweet,” the post was captioned with an alleged image.
The same image was shared on Facebook with the caption “inside Sammy Gyamfi’s car. Hmm Ghana” to paint the same narrative.
The claim could misinform, so DUBAWA decided to investigate the claim.
Verification
Using Google reverse image search, DUBAWA found that the image is old. It appeared online in an Instagram post on Sep. 10, 2023.
Jennifer Aniston’s private page uploaded the same image with the same car seat colour and background as part of a series of pictures in a Facebook post on Dec. 20, 2024.
You can find other social media posts where this particular image has been uploaded by several users here, here, here, and here.
Considering that Sammy Gyamfi’s video giving out dollars is recent, and the picture used in the various stacks of dollars found in his car has been online for years, the image cannot represent cash found in Gyamfi’s car in recent times.
Conclusion
The narrative that stacks of dollars were found in Gyamfi’s car is false. The image used to depict the stacks of dollars is old.
