Claim: Posts about reparation during Akufo-Addo’s era have been deleted
Source: Social media (X)
Verdict: False
Researched by Alfa Shaban
On March 25, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly voted in favour of Resolution A/80/L.48 to designate the trafficking and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans as the “gravest crime against humanity.”
The resolution spearheaded by Ghana and the African Union, was passed with 123 votes in favor, 3 against, 52 abstentions. That notwithstanding, analysts saw the outcome as a major shift from symbolic remembrance toward formal, institutional accountability.
Back home in Ghana, despite the months of engagement that President John Dramani Mahama put into the resolution, he was serially called upon to acknowledge the efforts that his predecessor put into the campaign for reparations in the last few years.
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On social media platform X, GhanaFact found a post by a user, Mr. Irish, that suggested that the John Mahama presidency had deleted posts about reparations made during the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo years.
The X post comprised three screenshots of posts about Akufo-Addo from 2022, its caption read in part: “Sadly, the President has ordered the people managing the Jubilee House official social media accounts to delete Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s messages/speeches on reparations. Anyway, We have all the screenshots though.”
The post, made a day after the resolution was adopted, so far has over 10,000 views – 13 comments, 61 reposts, 181 likes and 12 bookmarks.
Have these three posts and others been deleted from the presidency’s X handle?
Fact-Check
We will use a Media and Information Literacy (MIL) route to verify the deletion claim. We will walk readers through the process of finding old posts on a particular X page, in this case, the Ghana Presidency page.
Step 1 – Open the page in question
Log in to X and open the page where you are looking for specific information or old posts. In this case, go to the Ghana Presidency page.
Step 2 – Identify the search button on the page
There is a search button in the top-left corner of the page, just next to the Grok logo. This is different from the main search function on the desktop interface.
Step 3 – Search for keywords
From the screenshots, the common keyword to be searched is “reparations.” Type it into the search column and run the search.
Step 4 – Vet results
Vet the results, especially using the date. In this instance, recent posts about reparation concern the efforts of President John Mahama, but as one scrolls further down, one finds posts from 2022 featuring President Akufo-Addo. All three posts that the X user suggested had been deleted were all live here, here and here.
Verdict
The claim that X posts on reparation during the Akufo-Addo government have been deleted from the presidency’s X page is False.
We reached out to the person behind the claim, but he has yet to respond to our message.
