{"id":27012,"date":"2021-10-20T11:50:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T08:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=27012"},"modified":"2021-10-20T11:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T08:50:21","slug":"fugitive-ghana-musician-shatta-wale-turns-himself-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/fugitive-ghana-musician-shatta-wale-turns-himself-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive Ghana Musician Shatta Wale Turns Himself In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A popular Ghanaian artist who said he had gone on the run over fears of his safety has turned himself in, police say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two other people have also been arrested for &#8220;spreading false information&#8221; over an alleged gun attack on Shatta Wale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He has been arrested to assist the police in investigations for his alleged involvement in the creation and circulation of information intended to cause fear and panic,&#8221; police said on the musician&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police announced the arrests on Tuesday hours after the musician had himself\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ShattaWaleshattaMovement\/posts\/429728375177500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted a statement on Facebook\u00a0<\/a>saying his &#8220;life is in danger&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shatta Wale, whose real name is Charles Nii Armah Mensah, had linked his going &#8220;on the run&#8221; to what he called a &#8220;false prophet&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Ghanaian pastor last month appeared to make a prophecy on a local radio station that Shatta Wale would be killed,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Shatta-Wale-links-Baba-Sadiq-to-death-prophecy-from-Ghanaian-prophet-1368487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to news site GhanaWeb.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The musician&#8217;s collaboration with Beyonc\u00e9 on her Lion King album expanded his fan base in Africa and in diaspora communities around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular Ghanaian artist who said he had gone on the run over fears of his safety has turned himself in, police say. Two other people have also been arrested for &#8220;spreading false information&#8221; over an alleged gun attack on Shatta Wale. &#8220;He has been arrested to assist the police in investigations for his alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":27014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27015,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27012\/revisions\/27015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}