{"id":12770,"date":"2025-08-21T11:26:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=12770"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:26:43","slug":"fans-storm-eoco-demand-shatta-wales-release-from-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=12770","title":{"rendered":"Fans storm EOCO, demand Shatta Wale\u2019s release from custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of dancehall musician Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale, stormed the offices of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) on Thursday, August 21, 2025, to demand his release from custody.<\/p>\n<p>The artist was granted bail under strict conditions after being held over issues related to tax compliance. EOCO officials confirmed that his release is subject to meeting all legal requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Shatta Wale\u2019s media manager, Samuel Atuobi Baah, popularly known as Sammy Flex, confirmed in a video update that the musician\u2019s legal team and management are working to secure his release. He assured fans that all efforts are underway to meet the bail terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore proceeding with the case, EOCO has set a bail of ten million Ghana cedis (GH\u20b510 million) with two sureties. I assure you, the dancehall king\u2019s management and legal team are working tirelessly to resolve this,\u201d Sammy Flex stated.<\/p>\n<p>He also clarified that the case has been widely misreported. According to him, EOCO\u2019s investigation relates specifically to taxes on Shatta Wale\u2019s Lamborghini and his business operations, not other speculated issues circulating on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Shatta Wale was taken into custody on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, as part of EOCO\u2019s ongoing probe into his yellow Lamborghini and related tax compliance matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of dancehall musician Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale, stormed the offices of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) on Thursday, August 21, 2025, to demand his release from custody. The artist was granted bail under strict conditions after being held over issues related to tax compliance. EOCO officials confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":12771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41,3507],"tags":[3950,1349,3759],"class_list":["post-12770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general-news","category-national","tag-atuobi-baah","tag-eoco","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12772,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions\/12772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}