Despite media personality Abeiku Santana’s outline of the circumstances leading to the arrest of Sammy Kay by the police.
On Thursday, November 16, 2023, the Cyber Security Authority (CSA) issued a statement revealing the arrest of the celebrity blogger. He was subsequently handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.
The charges against him included allegedly publishing sexually explicit material and unlawfully using images of CSA officials.
The statement from CSA referenced ‘a publication on some social media platforms containing sexually explicit material and unlawful use of the images of Cyber Security Authority (CSA) officials by Samuel Dortey Kumah, owner of Sammykaymedia.’
During an appearance on UTV’s United Showbiz on Saturday, Abeiku Santana provided insights into Sammy Kay’s arrest, sharing details gathered when he visited the celebrity blogger at the police headquarters upon learning of his apprehension.
Abeiku Santana mentioned that Sammy Kay was arrested on Wednesday, although the official statement announcing the arrest was released on Thursday. The host of Okay FM’s drivetime show clarified that Sammy Kay did not spend more than forty-eight hours in prison.”
“I got to know he was at the police headquarters so I went there,” said Abeiku Santana. “He was arrested on Wednesday but the release was issued on Thursday. I went to the cyber security unit of the police and he was there.”
“Sammy Kay was contacted by the National Communications Authority, according to him. They invited him. In fact, they first called his attention to the publication he had done that the picture he had posted was wrong (misrepresentation). And I think that was what prompted him to delete his post and apologise,” Abeiku added.
“He honoured the invitation. I think he went with his wife. They interrogated him and later handed him over to the police. The police then brought him to the police headquarters because the cyber security had reported Sammy Kay to the police earlier so they initiated the process to get Sammy Kay arrested by the police. When he got to the police station, they seized his phones so he couldn’t contact any family member, according to him.”
Abeiku continued: “When I got there, he had called his lawyer, Tweneboah Kodua. We wanted to secure bail for him but we could not succeed because of a number of issues. So, they prepared the document docket and the lawyer was requesting a plea bargain, which is lawful.”
Speaking on Sammy Kay’s offence, Abeiku Santana said: “Sammy Kay posted a picture of a person who was allegedly in a sex, nude video. But I saw an apology on Sammy Kay’s timeline and it was about the misrepresentation of somebody. The picture of the person he posted was a misrepresentation of the first person, which he might have deleted; the person wore a T-shirt that had cyber security inscriptions.”
He recalled Sammy Kay’s first post, saying the blogger shared the picture and wrote, “Is this the man who is trending in the viral video?”
What exactly did Sammy Kay circulate?
While the statement did not explicitly describe the images Sammy Kay shared, checks on his social media platforms revealed that the blogger had issued an apology, which was accompanied by a photo of a gentleman in a white T-shirt with the inscription “National Cyber Security Awareness Programme.”
His apology shared on November 15, 2023, at 9.42 am read: “Upon further investigations, we found out this picture above is not the same person in the video circulating yesterday on Twitter.
“We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the post we initially made and we deeply regret our actions in pairing this picture with Abena Korkor’s picture.”
The Abena Korkor factor
On Wednesday, November 15, an explicit video surfaced online, gaining viral attention on Twitter. The video featured a naked man engaging in explicit activities, with an unidentified woman in the top right corner also involved in explicit behaviour, suggesting they were engaged in remote intimate interaction.
Despite the absence of evidence, some Twitter users claimed that Abena Korkor was responsible for releasing the video.
This speculation arose from a threat made by Abena after a previous incident where her bedroom video was leaked.
Abena had warned of releasing adult content involving two individuals whom she accused of being involved in the dissemination of her initial video.”
A Plus shoots down claims
“Amid the controversy and widespread criticism aimed at the person depicted in a video and the ‘related photograph,’ musician, satirist, and politician Kwame Asare Obeng (A Plus) strongly denied the claim that the two individuals were identical.”
“I don’t know if he has undergone cosmetic surgery recently because the person in the viral video and my friend are two totally different people,” his post read.
