{
  "id": 15762056,
  "title": "About 1,000 foreign nationals in Ghana’s prisons – Interior Minister",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/about-1-000-foreign-nationals-in-ghanas-prisons-interior-minister",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-20T15:36:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "GBC Ghana",
    "slug": "gbc-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.gbcghanaonline.com/general/foreign-nationals-prisons/2026/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Interior Minister Mohammed Muntaka revealed that roughly 1,000 inmates in Ghana's prisons are foreign nationals, with nearly 90 percent hailing from the West African sub-region. This has raised significant national security concerns. During a Public Accounts Committee hearing, Muntaka addressed the issue of inmates using mobile phones within the Ghana prison service, noting the volatile security situation in the region, which includes terrorism, violent extremism, coups, and cross-border crimes. He warned that allowing these inmates unrestricted access to communication devices could lead to grave threats beyond mobile fraud, as they could potentially coordinate criminal activities from within prison using smuggled phones. Muntaka assured that the government is collaborating with key security and intelligence agencies to tighten security and block unauthorized communications within prison facilities, including signal jamming and monitoring of communications around prison facilities.",
  "summary": "By Love Wilhelmina Abanonave Interior Minister, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, has disclosed that about 1,000 inmates in Ghana’s prisons are foreign nationals, with nearly 90 percent of them coming from the West African sub-region, raising serious national security concerns. The Minister made the revelation at the Public Accounts Committee hearing, while speaking on security challenges within […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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