Social media comedian Daniel Amartey, known as Short Prophet, says he spent nearly four years in Nsawam prison after investigators seized stamps and documents from his late employer’s workplace.
Amartey, who was an apprentice at the business, gave his account on the Convo with the Face podcast. A clip of the interview was later shared on X by @askghmedia. He said he was deputy captain of the Black Giants, Ghana’s national amputee football team, when he was convicted and sentenced to five years at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison. He maintains he knew nothing about the items.
By his account, the case began in 2015. His employer had died, and about a month after the funeral the family asked him to reopen the shop so it could earn money for the children left behind.
Four weeks later, he said, officers from the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) arrived with a handcuffed associate of his late boss. He told them his employer was dead, and they searched the premises.
The search reached a cabinet that he said had stayed locked since his boss died. He had no key, so the officers forced it open and removed documents, stamps and other materials they said were used to forge certificates. With the owner dead, Amartey said, he was the one arrested and later put before the court.
He said he was detained for a week before being granted bail. He blamed his conviction on a lack of money and poor legal representation during the trial. He said he served three years and eight months of the five-year term before his release.
He also accused the officers involved of knowing he had nothing to do with the forgery. “The EOCO officials knew I was innocent in all this,” he said. He said that about a month after his release, he met one of the officers, who told him the decision had come from a superior. He did not name the officer.
EOCO has not publicly responded to his claims.
Since his release, Amartey has built a following with comic skits on social media.
