The man who gripped the nation with chilling prophecies of an incoming doom-flood, Evans Eshun — widely known as Ebo Noah — has been taken into custody by the Ghana Police Service after months of stirring fear and national unease.
Security officials say growing alarm peaked when crowds of followers — including some who reportedly journeyed from outside Ghana — deserted their homes and began converging on his so-called “ark settlement,” dragging suitcases and personal belongings in anticipation of an imagined catastrophe. Authorities feared the situation was spiralling toward a humanitarian and public-order emergency.
Ebo Noah shot to prominence in August 2025 after declaring that he had received a divine instruction to construct ten modern-day arks to rescue believers from what he described as a three-year, world-engulfing deluge. According to his prophecy, the heavens were destined to open on December 25, 2025, echoing the biblical flood narrative.
For months, his TikTok and YouTube pages were filled with haunting footage of the 30-year-old clad in sackcloth, pacing through timber yards and overseeing crude wooden vessels he claimed would become humanity’s last sanctuary. He boasted of acquiring more than 250,000 pieces of lumber, insisting the arks were the only safe refuge for those who heeded his call.
But when Christmas Day arrived under clear skies, the prophecy collapsed.
In a widely-shared follow-up video, Ebo Noah abruptly shifted tone, claiming that intense prayers and a three-week fast had compelled God to “delay” the global destruction. The explanation sparked widespread outrage, with angry citizens accusing him of exploiting faith and inflicting needless fear on vulnerable followers.
Public pressure mounted rapidly, with increasing calls for his arrest on grounds of deception and public disturbance.
