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.
Eze Chidiebere Paul
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