The Minister for the Interior, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, has expressed deep concern over the lack of essential security infrastructure in Ghana's prisons.
Speaking during an engagement with the Ashanti Regional Police Command on Friday, April 4, 2025, the minister highlighted the absence of surveillance cameras and basic tools such as X-ray scanners, noting that this gap has created an enabling environment for drug trafficking within prison facilities. "We don't even have X-ray scanners in our prisons.
As a result, our prisons have become centers for drug trafficking.
People go in and out without proper checks, just hand searches, which are insufficient for detecting contraband," he said. "You need X-ray scanners so that, as people enter and exit the prisons, you can detect what they are carrying in and out.
