Popular Dancehall Artist Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale, sued social commentator Abubakar Ahmed, also known as Blakk Rasta, for defamation, demanding damages in the sum of 100 million cedis.
The action was premised on a publication said to have been made by Blakk Rasta (the Defendant) – that ‘Shatta Wale, self-confessed King of fraud,’ which the plaintiff finds defamatory.
In the case filed by his lawyers, Robert Smith Law and Group, on January 15, the award-winning musician is demanding from the former musician a retraction and apology.
The Plaintiff is also seeking a declaration that the statements and comments made by the Defendant in the video titled “SHATTA WALE, SELF CONFESSED KING OF FRAUD”, as defamatory.
“An Order directed at the Defendant to immediately and permanently remove or delete the video posted on the 15th of December, 2025, and titled “SHATTA WALE, SELF CONFESSED KING OF FRAUD”, and all related defamatory content from the Defendant’s social media platforms.
“An Order restraining the Defendant, his agents or whomsoever claiming by him from further posting, publishing, sharing or circulating through any defamatory statements or comments against the Plaintiff.
“An Order for a public retraction by the Defendant and an unqualified apology to be posted on the Defendant’s social media pages and published in a full page of the Daily Graphic, Ghanaian Times, and Graphic Show Biz newspapers.
In his statement of case, the Plaintiff stated that the statements made by the Defendant, by way of innuendo, were false. He said the malicious publications made by the Defendant “were naturally and ordinarily understood by right-thinking members of the society” to mean he “lacks honesty.”
He also stated that, per the publication, he “is possessed with the particularly bad moral of deceiving people by participating in, encouraging, and facilitating internet and other forms of fraud; which is not only an offence under our laws but a cancer the State is putting in every effort to eliminate from our social fabric;”
According to the Plaintiff, the Defendant, per his comment, portrayed him as “a morally reprehensible person with malicious intentions against people he comes into contact with.”
The Plaintiff said the statement also portrays him as “an opportunistic person who is only actuated by his selfish interest.”
Additionally, the Plaintiff said the publication was made to “put up false appearances merely to deceive people.”
Shatta Wale contended that the statement made by the Defendant portrays him as “an untruthful person and is full of lies, equivocation, and prevarication; and is a person who cannot be trusted.”
The basis for his claim is that “within 24 hours of the posting of the video on Facebook, the video has generated over 150,000 views, 1,000 plus comments and over 6,000 likes.”
The Plaintiff also stated that, the video has generated over 27,000 views, 40 plus comments and over 600 likes on YouTube.
He contended that, throughout the said video, the Defendant was heard tarnishing the reputation of the Plaintiff.
Source: Murtala Inusah