Investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has raised serious concerns over what he describes as a troubling disparity in how Ghana handles foreign nationals involved in illegal mining and other criminal activities.
In a post shared on his social media pages on April 9, 2025, Manasseh recalled that in 2021, his team obtained official data from the Ghana Prisons Service, which showed that only one Chinese national was serving a prison term in Ghana.
Notably, the offence of this lone Chinese inmate was not disclosed.
This revelation, according to Manasseh, was particularly startling, given the frequent arrests of Chinese nationals over the years for engaging in illegal mining - an activity that has devastated forests, polluted water bodies, and threatened the nation's security.
