Claim: A viral video circulating on social media shows a man whipping and assaulting street beggars, with claims that the victims are Northerners living in Southern Nigeria.
Verdict: False. Local news outlets have reported that the incident occurred at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange in Accra, and data from Google Maps confirmed the location.
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A disturbing video showing a man beating and whipping elderly women and their young children, believed to be beggars, has gone viral across social media platforms.
The video, which captures the happenings under a bridge, shows the man chasing after female beggars who are noticeably clad in hijab and beating them with a whip.
The background voice of a man speaking in Hausa expresses frustration, lamenting how Northerners who beg in the South are being humiliated.
“So, people from the North are now being flogged in the South?” Sharif Almuhajir, a university lecturer who shared the clip, captioned it.
As of Nov. 3, 2025, the video had garnered over 98,000 views, 1,200 comments, and 799 shares, sparking reactions among many Nigerians who believed the incident took place in the country’s southern states.
Many users expressed anger, frustration, and disappointment, while others called for calm and verification of the post.
“This doesn’t happen only in the South; It happens even in the North and neighbouring countries,” Rahma Abdulmajid commented.
“This is not Nigeria, malam, but your message is clear,” Adam Bin Daud Abdullah pointed out.
Videos like this, when taken out of context or misattributed, can cause outrage, hatred, and unnecessary division, especially when framed along regional or ethnic lines.
Given the tension such claims could create, DUBAWA decided to verify the authenticity of the post.
Verification
DUBAWA subjected some of the video’s keyframes to the InVid verification tool to identify visual clues about the video’s location. We observed yellow and white-coloured taxis, similar to those used in Accra, Ghana, in the video.
DUBAWA conducted a keyword search and found multiple news reports from Ghanaian media outlets, including GhanaWeb and GHpage, that previously published details linked to the same video.
According to GhanaWeb, the video shows a Ghanaian man at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange in Accra using a belt to whip street beggars, most of whom were elderly women and children.
The reports explained that the incident occurred after locals complained about the growing presence of beggars in that part of the city, which authorities have long described as a public nuisance.
GHpage further wrote that many Ghanaians demanded the man’s arrest following “dehumanising and unlawful” treatment he meted out to the beggars in the video.
None of these reports mentioned any link to Nigeria or Nigerians.
To confirm the exact location, DUBAWA reviewed the said location (Accra’s Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange) on Google Maps and compared it with frames of a building from the viral video.
Screenshot of a side-by-side comparison of the viral video.
Conclusion
The viral video of a man flogging beggars was recorded in Ghana, not in Southern Nigeria, as falsely claimed on social media.
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