A Ghanaian court has ordered the deportation of a Nigerian, Aremu Adegboyega, who was convicted for smuggling counterfeit currency valued at over $100,000 into the country through an illegal border.

Justice Christiana Cann of the Accra Circuit Court handed down the deportation order after Adegboyega was found guilty of multiple offenses, including possession of forged notes and illegal entry.

The Ghana Immigration Service has been directed to carry out his immediate deportation.

According to Assistant Superintendent of Police Isaac Anquandah, Adegboyega was arrested in 2023 by customs officers stationed at the Aflao border.

He was intercepted while riding as a passenger on a motorcycle at an unauthorised entry point known as “Beat Zero” along the Ghana-Togo border.

Suspicious of his movements, border officers searched his backpack and discovered bundles of counterfeit currency, including CFA francs totaling CFA 80,653,000 and Nigerian naira amounting to ₦101,500.

Further investigations revealed that the counterfeit currency had been smuggled from Togo into Ghana.

During police interrogation, Adegboyega reportedly admitted knowing the money was fake.

He claimed he received the counterfeit notes from a man named Alhaji Saibu in Nigeria, under instructions from a suspected mafia figure known as Alhaji Dials, believed to be based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.