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Claim: A viral video shows President John Mahama urging Ghanaians to invest in a scheme to earn more money.
Verdict: False. President Mahama has no investment plan. The video is a manipulated copy of Mahama’s original 2025 AU Day message.
Full Text
A video has emerged on Facebook showing the President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, promoting an investment scheme that allegedly enables individuals to earn GHS 14,300 daily by depositing GHS 2,600.
In the 3-minute video, he says, “In the next few minutes, I, John Mahama, will show you how to replicate my success… I’ll reveal how you can earn your first GHS14,300 as early as today.”
The post has attracted over 5,000 views and more than 160 comments, including some inquiring about its authenticity.
One commenter, for instance, asked: “Please, how can I know this is authentic and true so I can join?”
Given John Mahama’s status as President of Ghana, it was necessary to investigate the claim, as there is a high likelihood that people would invest in the scheme based on his supposed endorsement.
Verification
DUBAWA conducted cursory searches online and on various credible news outlets, including Graphic.com.gh, Citinewsroom.com, and Myjoyonline.com, and found no information about President Mahama’s supposed endorsement or promotion of a money-making scheme.
We followed the link associated with the Facebook post in question. We discovered that while the displayed link was to the domain ghanadailyinsight.com, it automatically redirected people who clicked on it to an Amazon page for a cap on sale.
This development raises significant suspicion and prompts further investigation into the Facebook page that published the video.
The page transparency feature on Facebook shows that the page was created less than two months ago and had already revised its name, heightening suspicions about the page’s authenticity.
Additionally, a careful review of the video revealed that while the audio bore striking resemblance of President John Mahama’s voice, the use of the phrase “Ghanaian Accra and Tamale,” between 54 and 57 seconds into the video showed an apparent discrepancy that exposed the audio clip as AI generated and lacking authentic phrasing of a Ghanaian.
Furthermore, it was observed that the lip movement is not correctly synchronised with the audio.
DUBAWA consequently conducted a Google image search and discovered that the original background video matched the one in President John Mahama’s Africa Day 2025 Message, posted on May 24, 2025, on the African Union’s YouTube channel. In it, he spoke on the theme for the celebration, “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations.”
Conclusion
Having analysed the video in question and searched through various credible news websites, we found that the video claiming to show President John Mahama promoting a money-making scheme is false and AI-generated.
