A Ghanaian court has sentenced a 41-year-old Nigerian woman, Franca Wilson, to six months imprisonment with hard labour for attempting to secure a Ghanaian passport using forged nationality documents.
The conviction was confirmed by the Ghana Immigration Service in a report published on Thursday by the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.
Wilson, said to be a welder, reportedly pleaded guilty before the Adabraka District Court in Accra on May 12, 2026, to charges related to fraudulent acquisition of travel documents.
According to reports, the court handed her a six-month jail term on three separate counts, with the sentences to run concurrently.
The convict was arrested on April 24, 2026, at the Accra Passport Application Centre after immigration officers detected inconsistencies in the nationality details she provided during screening.
Authorities subsequently referred the matter to the National Enforcement Department of the Ghana Immigration Service for further investigations.
Investigators later established that Wilson is a Nigerian citizen from Rivers State and was born to Nigerian parents.
However, she allegedly presented a forged birth certificate claiming she was born in Somanya, located in Ghana’s Eastern Region, to a Ghanaian mother.
The immigration service disclosed that during interrogation, the suspect failed to provide convincing information about the alleged Ghanaian parent she claimed as her mother.
The case is the latest in a series of identity-related offences involving foreign nationals in Ghana.
In December 2025, two Nigerians identified as Ike Isaac and Emmanuel Egbe were sentenced to 12 months imprisonment each by a Ghanaian court for attempting to obtain Ghana Cards using false identities.
The Madina District Court II had found both men guilty of fraudulently seeking to acquire the national identity cards.