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 a modern-day ark to save humanity from a catastrophic 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.
Graphic Online gathers that the preliminary police investigation indicates that he works as a security man at a private school in Madina, in Accra, and was neither a pastor nor a preacher.
According to the police, the photo he showed on social media of a boat was a small boat belonging to someone, which he went to stand by to take a photo, and then enhanced the photo for it to look like a giant boat.
He reportedly did not build any boat, and so the boat he showed on social media did not belong to him, but was somebody else’s boat.
He has also told the police that he completed Accra Polytechnic [now Accra Technical University], where he studied for an HND in Purchasing and Supply.
He had reportedly told the police he was just creating content for social media.
On Friday, January 2, 2026, he was arraigned on charges of false communication with the intent to put the public into fear and panic,
The court has since 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
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 boats (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.
Source:
www.graphic.com.gh
