The Ghana Police Service has also denied reports that 47 African nationals detained in connection with alleged terrorism and fraud have gone missing.
According to the Service, all 47 people arrested in the Ashanti Region have been repatriated to their respective home countries.
The Ghanaian Times newspaper had accused both the police and the Ghana Immigration Service of engaging in a blame game over the whereabouts of the nationals in question which the media house tagged as “terrorists”.
However, the Police Service and the Immigration Service both denied the report in separate statements.
“We wish to state categorically that the said publication is false and should be disregarded. No supposed terrorists have been arrested by the Police and the Ghana Immigration Service, and there is certainly no blame game going on between the two state security agencies as is being falsely claimed by the Ghanaian Times Newspaper,” police said in the statement.
According to the security services, the said foreign nationals were arrested by the Police and Immigration in two separate operations in September 2022 at Ekyem, AAchiase, and Akokoamong near Ejisu in the Ashanti Region for engaging in illegal Network Marketing (QNET).
“All 48 suspects were profiled in line with the standard operating procedures of our two institutions and were repatriated to their various home countries between September 26th and September 29, 2022,” police added.
The police urged the public and media to be circumspect in their use of the term ‘terrorists’ ‘and avoid using the word loosely and irresponsibly, and thus creating unwarranted fear and panic.
