Ghana police arrest three suspects, get well counterfeit wax print materials smuggled from Nigeria

The Ghana Police Service has arrested three (3) suspects and seized massive portions of various wax print materials suspected to be counterfeit GTP materials smuggled from Nigeria.

The police disclosed this in a press release on Saturday, November 14,  2026.

The suspects, Salifu Mamuda, 50, and Iddrisa Mohammed, 44, have been arrested on the scene at Adabraka in Accra on Monday, ninth November 2026. A 3rd suspect, Eric Boakye was later arrested.

The operation was carried out by the IGP Special Operations Team (SOT) following intelligence that two articulator vans, with registration numbers SMK-161-YH and T-28975-LA, suspected to have originated from Nigeria, have been offloading some contraband items at a warehouse off the Kojo Thompson Highway, Adabraka.

The consignment is estimated to be price GH¢20 million and is believed to have been smuggled from Nigeria.The seized items have been conveyed to the CID Headquarters for additional investigations and the suspects have been handed over to the Special Investigation Unit and the vans impounded.

Officials of GTP have been invited by police to look at the seized textiles and it was reported that the prints have been faux merchandise bearing imitated GTP labels.

The suspects disclosed to police that they introduced the products from Nigeria by way of the Akanu border within the Volta Region.

The Customs Division of the GRA was invited and so they additionally confirmed to police that the GRA tax stamps on the materials are all faux.

The police added that additional investigation is ongoing.