The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has given details of the operation it conducted on Friday, May 16, 2025, to remove foreign nationals involved in street begging on the streets of the nation’s capital, Accra.

In a statement issued on Friday, the GIS indicated that it arrested 2,241 suspects in the operation, which seeks to “repatriate undocumented foreign nationals humanely and disrupt criminal networks that facilitate their operations”.

It stated that the suspects were arrested in communities across Accra, including Sabon Zongo, Nima, Abossey Okai and Obetsebi Roundabout.

The Immigration Service indicated that the 2,241 suspects arrested were made up of 909 adults and 1,332 children.

Three hundred and eighty-four (384) of the adults were males, with the remaining 525 being females.

Out of the 1,332 children who were arrested, 577 were males and 755 were females.

The service went ahead to assure the public that the arrested foreign nationals would be treated “with the highest professionalism and respect for their human rights.”

See the GIS statement below:



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