A 41-year-old Nigerian woman, Franca Wilson, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment in Ghana for attempting to obtain 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, a welder by profession, 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 arrested on April 24, 2026, at the Accra Passport Application Centre after immigration officials detected discrepancies in the nationality documents she submitted during the screening process.
The Ghana Immigration Service said she was later transferred to the National Enforcement Department at the agency’s headquarters for further investigations.
Investigations reportedly revealed that Wilson is a Nigerian citizen from Rivers State and was born to Nigerian parents.
Authorities alleged that she submitted a forged birth certificate claiming she was born in Somanya to a Ghanaian mother.
The immigration agency further disclosed that during interrogation, Wilson failed to provide verifiable information regarding the alleged Ghanaian parent she claimed in the documents used for the passport application.
