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Bella Shmurda banned from Ghana for assaulting medical doctor

The Nigerian singer reportedly attacked a medical doctor after he, alongside his cohort, was handed a positive COVID-19 test result.

• September 4, 2021
Bella Shmurda
Bella Shmurda

Nigerian artist Akinbiyi Ahmed popularly known as Bella Shmurda has been deported from Ghana after assaulting a medical doctor at a quarantine center.

Ghana Web had reported the “cash app” crooner alongside his friends, Ramsey Omeofe and Jubreel Ahmed, were fined, deported and banned from Ghana for three months after the trio attacked a medical doctor with a fork at Mplaza Hotel in Accra on September 1.

Apparently, upon their arrival in Ghana on August 27,  the trio were mandated to  quarantine and take a COVID-19 test which unfortunately came out positive.

Bella Shmurda, alongside his two accomplice, proceeded to threaten and attack the health workers for being incompetent and issuing out “fake” and “false” COVID-19 test results.

The trio claimed they were not positive to COVID-19 and insisted on being discharged.

They have now been convicted and charged with verbal abuse, physical assault, and attempted assault.

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