*Don’t Assist Strangers Get Our National ID Documents Illegally, He Rallies Countrymen
*’3 Nigerians Deported From S/Arabia Presented Ghana Documents’
Involvement in one criminality or the other has landed many Nigerians in jail in Ghana with the West African country’s authorities saying Nigerians constitute 75 per cent of foreigners in prisons all over their country.
Ghana said of a total of 14,000 prisoners in the country’s jails, 1,100 were foreigners.
Furthermore, it disclosed that three Nigerians deported recently from Saudi Arabia landed in Abuja,the Nigeria capital, with Ghana passports, raising concerns over identity fraud and national security.
Interior Minister Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, who disclosed these, therefore warned Ghanaians against helping foreigners obtain national identification documents.
He accused his countrymen and women of also helping foreign nationals to enter Ghana by using illegitimate crossing points.
According to a 2 June report in the authoritative Ghana Graphic Online newspaper, sighted by People&Politics, Mr Muntaka said these at the start of his two-day duty tour of the Volta Region on Monday (1 June, 2026) when he paid a courtesy call on the Volta Regional Minister, James Gunu, at his office in Ho, and later met with religious and traditional leaders at the Ho Residency.
The Interior Minister said the danger in the trend of assisting foreigners unlawfully was that the motive of the strangers who were crossing into Ghana illegally was unknown, pointing out that this was cause for concern, especially in an era of terrorism in the West African sub-region.
The rising influx of undocumented foreigners into the country was also not helping Ghana’s international image, Muntaka stressed.
The Minister rallied the citizenry to be alert and help in the fight to curb the scourge.
He said human traffickers often lured people into the country and made money out of them by forcing them into prostitution and other criminal acts.
At the meeting at the Residency, Chairman of the Volta Region Christian Council, Rev. Seth Mawutor, said it was gratifying that Christians and Muslims in the region live together in harmony.
*PHOTO CAPTION: Muntaka (l) shaking hands with Gunu during the courtesy call.
