Friday, May 22, 2026 -A 41-year-old Nigerian woman, Franca Wilson, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment in Ghana for attempting to acquire a Ghanaian passport using falsified nationality documents.
The conviction was confirmed by the Ghana Immigration
Service in a report published by the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
on Thursday.
Earlier reports by Citi Newsroom stated that Wilson, who
works as a welder, pleaded guilty before the Adabraka District Court in Accra
on May 12, 2026.
The court subsequently sentenced her to six months
imprisonment with hard labour on three separate counts, with all sentences to
run concurrently.
According to the reports, Wilson was apprehended on April
24, 2026, at the Accra Passport Application Centre after immigration officials
detected discrepancies in the nationality documents she presented during the
screening process.
The Ghana Immigration Service disclosed that she was later
transferred to the National Enforcement Department at the agency’s headquarters
for further investigation.
Investigations reportedly established that Wilson is a
Nigerian citizen from Rivers State and was born to Nigerian parents.
Authorities, however, alleged that she submitted a forged
birth certificate claiming she was born in Somanya, located in Ghana’s Eastern
Region, to a Ghanaian mother.
The immigration agency further stated that during
interrogation, Wilson failed to provide verifiable details regarding the
alleged Ghanaian parent she claimed in the documents submitted for the passport
application.
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