The government has announced a decisive policy shift to deport, rather than prosecute, foreign nationals arrested for engaging in criminal activities such as illegal mining and cyber fraud in Ghana.
Minister for the Interior, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, revealed the new approach during an engagement with the Ashanti Regional Police Command in Kumasi, as part of his working visit to the region on Friday, April 4, 2025.
He explained that the decision aims to protect Ghana's environment and safeguard citizens from fraudulent schemes orchestrated by foreign operatives in the country.
According to the Minister, investigations by security agencies have exposed complex criminal networks involving foreign nationals operating within Ghana's forests, unlawfully felling trees, engaging in illegal mining (galamsey), and perpetrating cyber fraud schemes targeting victims worldwide. "What we found is alarming - sophisticated systems set up by these criminals to exploit our environment and defraud people globally.
