Nigerian woman jailed in Ghana over fake passport documents

A 41-year-old Nigerian woman, Franca Wilson, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment successful Ghana for attempting to get a Ghanaian passport utilizing falsified nationality documents.

The condemnation was confirmed by the Ghana Immigration Service successful a study published by the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation on Thursday.

Earlier reports by Citi Newsroom stated that Wilson, who works arsenic a welder, pleaded blameworthy earlier the Adabraka District Court successful Accra connected May 12, 2026.

The tribunal subsequently sentenced her to six months imprisonment with hard labour connected 3 abstracted counts, with each sentences to tally concurrently.

According to the reports, Wilson was apprehended connected April 24, 2026, astatine the Accra Passport Application Centre aft migration officials detected discrepancies successful the nationality documents she presented during the screening process.

The Ghana Immigration Service disclosed that she was aboriginal transferred to the National Enforcement Department astatine the agency’s office for further investigation.

Investigations reportedly established that Wilson is simply a Nigerian national from Rivers State and was calved to Nigerian parents.

Authorities, however, alleged that she submitted a forged commencement certificate claiming she was calved successful Somanya, located successful Ghana’s Eastern Region, to a Ghanaian mo...