Accra: Barbara Asantewaa Kodua, known popularly as 'Ghana Jollof', who has been declared wanted by the Ghana Police Service regarding an alleged case of incitement of violence, has spoken out. The police have accused Asantewaa Kodua, currently residing in the United Kingdom, of using a TikTok account under the name "Ghana Jollof" to issue offensive and inciting comments as well as publish false news likely to cause fear and alarm.
According to Ghana Web, in one of the videos of Ghana Jollof's alleged crimes, which was shared by the police, she is heard claiming there was an attempted coup d'©tat because President John Dramani Mahama has infuriated some soldiers with his actions. Reacting to the allegations against her and the attempt to have her arrested, 'Ghana Jollof' asserted that there is no way the UK government would extradite her to Ghana.
She claimed that she is currently very sick and no court would allow her to be sent back to Ghana because there is no way she can commit the crimes she has been accused of. 'They said I said I want to lead a coup, or I said I would kill the President. If they want me to be extradited, it would not happen just because they show the court a video. They would examine the person to see if s/he can do what she is saying. I'm bedridden; my knees don't work. Are they going to carry me with a stretcher to the court,' she said in the Twi dialect in a viral video clip from an interview after she was declared wanted.
She added, 'My knees are not working, and because of this I'm not able to go to work. It is the government which has been taking care of me. Even when I am going for a review, they send an ambulance and bring me down using a lift. They would not just extradite me; they would examine whether I can do the things I'm accused of.'
The Ghana Police Service has been monitoring a TikTok account under the name "Ghana Jollof", which the accused person used to issue offensive and inciting comments as well as publish false news likely to cause fear and alarm. "As part of continuous efforts to clamp down on illicit online activities, the Ghana Police Service has, for some time now, observed a TikTok account under the name Ghana Jollof which has been used to issue offensive and inciting comments as well as to publish false news which is likely to cause fear and alarm. Police intelligence revealed the identity of the account owner to be Babara Asantewaa Kodua, believed to be domiciled in the United Kingdom.
"Over a period of time, Babara Asantewaa Kodua has used her social media platform to produce and publish videos containing offensive and inciting statements with the potential to provoke violence... In one of the videos under investigation, the suspect, Barbara Asantewaa Kodua, falsely made the claim that there was a near coup d'©tat in the Jubilee House amongst other things," the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, Lydia Yaako Donkor, briefed the nation in a press conference on September 18, 2026.