Award-winning Ghanaian dancehall artist Charles Nii Armah Mensah, widely known as Shatta Wale, has filed a defamation lawsuit against musician and social commentator Blakk Rasta, seeking GH¢100 million in damages over a controversial online publication.
The suit, filed on January 15 by Shatta Wale’s legal team, Robert Smith Law and Group, stems from a video published by the defendant and titled “SHATTA WALE, SELF CONFESSED KING OF FRAUD”. The plaintiff argues that the content is defamatory and has caused significant reputational harm.
According to court filings, Shatta Wale is asking the court to declare that the statements and comments made in the video are defamatory and untrue. He is also seeking an order compelling Blakk Rasta to retract the publication and issue an unqualified public apology.
Among the reliefs sought is “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.”
The plaintiff is further requesting “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.”
In addition, Shatta Wale is asking the court to compel Black Rasta to issue “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.”
The filing states that the video portrays him as someone who “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;”
Shatta Wale further claims the publication depicts him as “a morally reprehensible person with malicious intentions against people he comes into contact with,” as well as “an opportunistic person who is only actuated by his selfish interest.”
He also argues that the statements suggest he deliberately “put up false appearances merely to deceive people,” and portray him as “an untruthful person and is full of lies, equivocation, and prevarication; and is a person who cannot be trusted.”
As part of the basis for the claim, the plaintiff cited the rapid spread of the video across social media platforms. According to court documents, within 24 hours of being posted on Facebook, the video attracted more than 150,000 views, over 1,000 comments, and in excess of 6,000 likes. On YouTube, the same content reportedly garnered more than 27,000 views, over 40 comments, and upwards of 600 likes.
