Ghana Threatens To Raid And Deport Foreign Prostitutes In Coming Days

Muntaka Mubarak

Source: Africa Publicity

Ghana’s Interior Minister, Muntaka Mubarak, has declared that Ghanaian authorities will soon wage war against foreigners engaged in prostitution in Ghana and deport them to their respective countries. 

Mubarak issued the threat on Thursday, May 22, 2025. Ghanaian authorities including the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) have in recent days been raiding street children and beggars, vowing to repatriate them to their respective countries.

And in his speech to commission a four-storey, 24-unit apartment block constructed by the Ghana State Housing Company for the Ghana Immigration Service, the Interior Minister reaffirmed the Ghanaian Government’s resolve to restore order and decency to urban streets across Ghana.

According to the Minister, a recent swoop in the Ghanaian capital, Accra led to the arrest of more than 2,000 foreign beggars, with nearly half of them already deported.

He said by the end of this week, the remaining beggars and street dwellers would be removed from streets in Accra.

Mubarak stated that “The beggars are not a nuisance but a threat to our national security. By the close of this week, we should be able to finish removing all of them. I can assure the rest of them that they either return to where they are coming from, because very soon, we are coming after all of them, including the prostitutes who are parading on almost all our streets. We will not rest on our oars, we will go after them until we remove all of them.”