Court remands Ebo Noah in police custody, orders psychological assessment for claiming God instructed him to build arks to save humanity from catastrophic global flood
Evans Eshun, commonly known on social media as Ebo Noah, spent months stirring anxiety with a claim of a vision involving a global flood on Christmas Day.
The Ghanaian self-proclaimed prophet and social media personality gained global notoriety in 2025 for claiming that God had instructed him to build modern-day arks to save humanity from a catastrophic three-year global flood, which he predicted would begin on December 25, 2025.
On New Year's Eve, the police picked him up for a breach of the Public Order Act in Ghana.
On Friday, January 2, 2026, he was arraigned, and the court remanded him into police custody for two weeks.
The court also directed that he should be psychologically assessed before the next adjourned date of January 16, 2026
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Ebo Noah had claimed that his "divine vision" was a biblical-style deluge.
He showed photos and videos of himself on social media with several large wooden vessels (arks) in Ghana, often documenting the process on TikTok and YouTube.
When no flood occurred on Christmas Day 2025, he released videos claiming his intense fasting and prayers had convinced God to "postpone" the disaster to allow more people time to repent.
On social media, some critics have accused him of being a scammer after a video surfaced showing him driving a luxury Mercedes-Benz, which some claimed he used donations intended for the ark project to purchase.
On December 31, 2025, the Ghana Police Service arrested him for allegedly causing public fear and panic in breach of the Public Order Act.
Some people reportedly abandoned their homes to travel to his site in anticipation of the flood.
A video showing someone who had reportedly travelled from Liberia to Elmina in the Central Region of Ghana to join the ark was shared on social media.
