From Wanted to Ghanaian Citizen: How foreign fugitives allegedly use Ghana as a haven for fraud

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  • Joe 3 months ago

    Gate way to Africa. Cheap immigration rules. Omg

  • AGBESI KWASI 3 months ago

    Who's government was in charge in 2022? Was it Nana Addo and his NPP? The level of corruption was just too much.

  • Mr. Ofori 3 months ago

    Oyiwah. 2021 and 2022. Who was in.power?? NPP is the most useless and corrupt party in the whole Ghana. Very disgraceful idiots. And these are the people who quickly want to come back to power and continue their chop chop ...
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  • Free Radicals 3 months ago

    It is non firm story a senseless journalist wrote to fool you

  • islam is a false religion 3 months ago

    Say no to islam and convert to a real religion. Prophet mohammed was a sick dog and qur'an is toilet paper...........Search online for ways to move away from evil islam. You can join ex-muslim groups online and be saf ...
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  • FRANKIE 3 months ago

    Ghanaians are doing worse in other jurisdictions. Travel and see! It's the price that comes with peace, progress, promise, prosperity, opportunity and stability. We're just emerging and will likely see a lot more of these thi ...
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  • Benji 3 months ago

    Citizenship Express. NPP, a party of fraudsters, helping their brethren. Has NDC dealt with that other NPP fraudster with 2 different IDs? The one Ablakwa exposed.

  • Karikakchar 3 months ago

    Just a reflection of the level of corruption in GH. The US has stopped issueing visa Niaja. Those of them who want to travel will just come to GH obtain the travel documents and soon GH will also be classified tge same wsy

  • Nii Odoi 3 months ago

    Nothing to do with NPP government. The immigration officials who issued the passport have probably been there since Rawlings's time.
    IT IS CORRUPT PUBLIC OFFICIALS(civil servants) you should attack.
    Corruption in the Publi ...
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  • The Spear 3 months ago

    It is NOT NPP problem, corruption is Ghanaian tradition, and it's always been there, minimized during AFRC and PNDC era, and coming back as soon as people realized Rawlings was no longer a soldier.

  • Victor Bonssrah 3 months ago

    Agbesi Kwasi are you saying all those who were working to get those processes done were NPP supporters? I'm neither NPP or NDC 'cause I don't live in Ghana.But your argument blaming NPP for this mishap is misguided.Too many u ...
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  • Die hard Npp 3 months ago

    If Fulani can be Ghanaians first lady why not Indian? What about Lebanese living in Ghana as first class citizens?

  • Tiwaa 3 months ago

    Their citizenship should be revoked and deported immediately, if they have been found to have falsified documents and lied to obtain citizenship to serve as a deterrent to others. Again the officers who granted them citizensh ...
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  • Justice 3 months ago

    It's sad for people to comment on something they paid someone to write about it. Sometimes they money some people chase after will sure end them badly .

  • Kwasi 3 months ago

    Fool was FATIA NKRUMAH then first lady and wife of our first president a GHANAIAN?. Your hatered will not wash take your stupidity away.

  • Aku 3 months ago

    Even a Russian is an American First Lady

  • Pizarro 3 months ago

    You are displaying ignorance...sorry.Since when did Melania Trump have Russian roots?

  • Year of return ampa 3 months ago

    We sit and allow foreigners to come in use Ghana and resources well, lord over our pple as slaves and use them and we applud and lie down for them... Leaders a d citizens alike... Oo Ama Ghana

  • Nyenahin Youth 3 months ago

    We the people of Nyenahin prefer our Chinese masters with Bulldogs they unleash on us to a Ghanaian like Ibrahim Mahama. They should dig the bauxite to China and impregnate our wives and sisters. Our sisters enjoy Chinese di ...
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  • Odwan 3 months ago

    Was the year of return extended to Indians? Why are NDC buffoons so stupid? It's no wonder because NDC people are mostly ntafuo and Ayigbefuo who lack human brains

  • Foreigners with Ghanaian Citizenship 3 months ago

    I'm always been saying this, Ghana is the Greatest F00lish country of all times

  • OSAFO KANTANKA 3 months ago

    The Security Service should do a forensic enquiries on how these alleged perpetrators of criminal acts Managed to Gain Ghanaian Citizenship. Immediate arrests of officials involved should be carried out.

  • Charles 3 months ago

    @Osafo Kantanka. We'll said. I can not agree with you more. My heart is cooking wii with anger. What is wrong with Ghana. Why are we so cheap as a nation? How on earth can a foreigner acquire our citizenship within a year of ...
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  • KGB 3 months ago

    Nothing surprises me anymore in this country. We are a currupt society. Everything is for sale including our very soul but we are Christian country. The only that is a sin to us is homosexuality anything else is ok.

  • Free Radicals 3 months ago

    I can’t believe a senseless journalist would write non confirmed for people to read.

  • Adwoa Tsetseba 3 months ago

    Akufo Monkey Addo is a disgrace to this country. Obtaining Ghanaian Citizenship within one year? Now it is clear that Akufo Monkey Addo is the MOTHER SERPENT OF CORRUPTION

  • Free Radicals 3 months ago

    Even your imbecile president John Dramani Mahama took $500 thousand dollars to bring terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to Ghana to terrorize Ghanaians as he is doing to Abronye DC and Fanti comedy.Your President John Dramani Ma ...
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  • Me 3 months ago

    Free Radicals you sound very foolish like your stupid wretched father.

  • Kwaseato 3 months ago

    It is idiots like you who will take bribes from people to do what you know is evil to do, and you turn around to blame politicians. Nurses and teachers are not being paid their rightful overdue salaries because you have worke ...
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  • True 3 months ago

    I have been saying it that Ghana an immigration is SOOOO CORRUPT. More corrupt than the police. They allow all kinds of miscreants into the country when given money.

  • Ys 3 months ago

    Whoever appended a signature must be in Nsawam. Those responsible for security must not be allowsed to use it for personal benefits while endangering us

  • Jordan Ayew 3 months ago

    And these are the people who wants to come back to power again. The whole world will laugh at Ghana if we allow these NPP rogues to come back to power

  • JJ KUFFOUR AKUFO ADDO 3 months ago

    I don't like NPP at all, but this has nothing to do with Nana's government. Our immigration officers melt down when they see foreigners. Anytime I come to Ghana, I'm subjected to the highest level of immigration scrutiny al ...
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  • SHE WILL BUY IFF THE NDC INVESTIGATORS! 3 months ago

    NDC investigators are poorer than NPPs. This is the season of buying off criminal activities.

    The crooked NDC Attorney- General is opened for business. How much have you got. He will ask?

    Like ORAL and all the others, ...
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  • Nana Awaasu 3 months ago

    Please I mean no harm. Ghanawewb, please can you provide me the dates they acquired their documents? And who is the facilitator? We need to find out before we can say something.

  • much-Pioson 3 months ago

    What a boring episode,if you have evidence go to the appropriate authorities and lodge your complains . When did this happened,which year ,? Under whose regime?

  • Nana 3 months ago

    Ghanaians treat foreigners better than their own. Even in our international schools. Hmmmm

  • Kanawu, USA 3 months ago

    Everything is for sale in Ghana.
    You pay the right person and you can get anything...even a PhD is a for sale.

    This is why I left the country. It's a failed state

  • I know 3 months ago

    The former DEPUTY IGP (sic) & now the IGP Christian Tetteh Yohuno is the most useless and dangerous person in Ghana right now big time. He is a poodle

  • Felicia Koranteng 3 months ago

    NPP is a disgrace to Ghana. Corrupt party

  • CORRUPT NPP GOVT 3 months ago

    Those NPP thieves in power at the time must have demanded & gladly taken bribes to quickly approved her citizenship. Fraudulent, nation wrecking people!

  • Wasteman 3 months ago

    AS FOR GHANAWEB YOU CAN PAY THEM TO WRITE AND PUBLISH ANYTHING YOU WANT !!…ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH JOURNALISM

  • Emmanuel 3 months ago

    Tell them, people are just blaming and commenting stupidly without knowing the truth. Sometimes we should learn not to blame people anytime when something is posted online. You have to sit and do your own research and check ...
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  • Capt Adabuga 3 months ago

    Shithole county

  • Ama Ghana 3 months ago

    The billion dollar question is , CAN WE GAIN INDIAN CITIZENSHIP THAT EASILY ???
    Hmm Ghana!!! These kinds of things should be reciprocal but rather it’s all about paying your way through and then there they are - they are ...
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  • Populist 3 months ago

    Hmmm oh mother. It seems almost everything is possible if money exchanges hands according to foreign nationals such as Chinese. How do we correct the wrong and tighten our security system if money remains the easy password to ...
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  • Corruption is destroying Ghana 3 months ago

    That criminal was able to acquire Ghanaian citizenship because of endemic corruption in Ghana, and I'm pretty sure she was aided by the Indian businessman she turned around to scam.

  • Yaw 3 months ago

    Some of you are on autopilot, automatically blaming the government of the day for serious negligence by those directly responsible for failing to do their jobs. This mindset lets the real culprits off the hook. We must stop p ...
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  • Anita 3 months ago

    @ Yaw. I hope you will blame the individuals who are proposing the electricity and water tarrif increases and not the government. If surely you are not on autopilot

  • Yaw 3 months ago

    Your brain is on low battery mode so I forgive you now and no further comment.

  • Frank Talk 3 months ago

    How did they weave around the mandatory 7 years residence to obtain citizinship, simple the average Ghanaian is corrupt to the core and light skin worshiper (obroni worshiper). Put these 2 together and the woman can get anyth ...
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  • Kofi 3 months ago

    A lots had gone on during Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo Addo's tenure

  • HELPED BY GHANAIANS 3 months ago

    The Ghana police must be closed. Sack them all and let the military police take over.

  • Truth stands 3 months ago

    Ghana must watch this.
    This is very very bad for Ghana

  • Donatus 3 months ago

    Maybe, maybe, maybe, someone or people got something out of it. Ghana!!!

  • Slim 3 months ago

    With $4000, you can get Ghanaian citizenship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
    I witnessed this last year 2024 when a sister and mom of an America Gospel artist secured Ghanaian citizenship.

  • Kwame Peter 3 months ago

    Jordan Ayew, you have just voted back into power a President who took bribe whilst transacting official business for the country,what disgrace is greater than this?You are happy with him isn’t it?

  • Otubuah 3 months ago

    You know as much as I do that corruption is the answer! Once you can pay your way through in Ghana, nothing is impossible! That's why lots of Nigerians posses all the necessary Ghanain documents to claim points can't claim wi ...
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  • Kofi Jesus 3 months ago

    Ghanaians have a short memory we have forgotten that Mahama gave three guatanamo Bay tourists Ghanaian passport deported to Ghana by former US president Obama.

  • Makaa-maka 3 months ago

    If your color is not black, you can have your way to do or get anything you want. Once he/she is ready to offer few hundreds of cedis to those in the helm of affairs not politicians but civil and/or public servants. It's evil ...
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  • Andropov 3 months ago

    Cancel the citizenship and deport them to India. Whoever facilitated the acquisition of the Ghana document's should also be arrested and thrown into prison

  • ROGUE LAWYER 3 months ago

    revoke it, and send them back to face the laws of India

  • poloo 3 months ago

    i thin toto worked the wonders for this woman.

  • Abokyi 3 months ago

    All that Ghanaians think about is witchcraft and money, so we close our minds to very sensitive and critical issues.

  • JULOR CAESAR 3 months ago

    Foreign crooks and criminals with money have all heard about how corrupt Ghana officials are. With enough money to bribe crooked Ghana government officials, these foreign criminals and crooks with loads of money can have thei ...
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