Ghana's Fake Right of Abode & How Ghana Immigration Officer Scam African Americans

Wednesday, 18 September 2024

By: TB Obwoge

Denied a residency permit in Ho, Ghana for having tattoos, an African American from California told me of her fight to be permitted to live in Ghana. She also told me that in order to register her NGO (Non-Governmental Organization), in Ghana she had to register it in the name of a Ghanaian.

She was informed this and claims she did it as well, she said that the Ghanaian would be in complete control of the money that her NGO received as well. I would never in my life do this for my American nonprofit, I never made it that far as I was asked to pay thousands of USD for the pleasure of helping Ghanaians.

I was told by others that her claim is wrong, that you don't in fact need to register your NGO under the name of a Ghanaian. Either way I would never in my life suggested living in Ghana to anyone.

Ghanaians refuse to believe that Ghana is Africa's second highest scamming country in Africa, they refuse to believe much of the truth about their own societal ills. Everything is blamed on the west, their leaders and then on other Black Africans living in Ghana.

The videos are filling YouTube, I've written about them and shared the links of many African Americans telling about their scam stories living in Ghana. Not only about scam stories, about being treated like every other foreigner in Ghana. 

I hated how I was treated living in Ghana, I hate that so many African Americans got stuck in Ghana, then turned towards promoting Ghana for social media influencer money. I have been in a group for some time now, where many people openly speak about the hell they found waiting for them in Ghana. 

Those who are stuck because they sold all they had in the United States, purchased houses in Ghana but can't afford to leave the country. Many have turned to making money from social media. 

There are even those who have videos where they link their PayPal or CashApp accounts seeking assistance because they find themselves stuck in Ghana.

As I'm working to finish my new book, I decided to let out all the information about the scamming by Ghanaians. Here I will tell about the Ghana Immigration scam, that me and other African Americans fell for because we had no other choice.

Ghana Immigration officer Larbi, told me that the only way I could obtain a residency permit was to have $100,000 USD in my bank account. Which some people did have after saving and selling their lives away to move to Ghana. However most of us didn't have this, we were common everyday working people, though we saved money it was not $100,000 USD.

Larbi's second option was to be married to a Ghanaian citizen, which I was not. With the romance scamming in Ghana you would think Ghanaians would ask foreigners to help them in return they'd marry you to help you. Instead of being humane and making a deal, most would rather defraud & hurt others.

Pretending to love someone is the cruelest, most disgusting form of scamming, where in Ghana they will 100 percent walk away without any charges.

Larbi then told me that he could provide me with a Ghanaian, then we could sign a marriage certificate that he would provide. The marriage certificate is fake, it would remain in the possession of Ghana immigration. Since I had no idea what to do, since he was the immigration officer that was sent to me during the Covid-19 operations in the country, I thought he was all I had.

Ghana has no help for those who immigrate to the country, the American Embassy in Ghana is worthless. Much like the American Embassy in Kenya, these embassies aren't created to really help American citizens. They are of service for wealthy white Americans living abroad.

Something like obtaining a notary on a document, this is free in the United States if you go to a congress persons officer. However in the American Embassy in Kenya, they charge $50 USD for every form you need notarized in the country, that was over 5 years ago it might be much more now.

Since I was no longer living with Ebo, someone who was cruel to me in many ways, I didn't want to use him. I trusted him more than any Ghanaian though but the way his culture raised him to treat women, his mother, children, he was a bully. He beat on his nephews because he could, he did the same to the family dogs.

He seemed even more cruel because he was short, didn't make much money but lived a very comfortable life, more than I did. He also had a loving family that he treated like shit because he was the only male child whose father left the family to live alone in their Cape Coast house.

The audacity that Ghanaian men are raised to think they're to be worshipped was even told to me by serveral Nigerian women living in Ghana. At first I didn't believe them, it was Mary (25-years old) and her sister at 23-years old who gave me this lengthy lecture.

It wasn't until several Ghanaian women told me the same things, even using some of the same wording. Cheating was acceptable for Ghanaian women, they talk of ways to deal with it, when many decided they too would start to cheat.

This may sound like I'm making things up but even Thomas Sankara speaks about this in his Women's Day Speech in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso back in 1987. He often spoke of how women were subjegated by men and colonialism, this still hold truest not only in Ghana but all of West Africa.

In Ghana their immigration officers are setting up Ghanaian men and African American men & women with these fake marriages, then charging thousands for a residency visa. They then charge you even more to renew, are only allowing one year visas instead of the 2 year visa, so they can steal from African Americans every year.

With this I didn't have to do a criminal check, I also didn't have to do a physical. I was WhatsApp video called and saw Larbi with one of the highest in immigration, the man that would be the one to sign off on my residency permit.

I was always respectful, I didn't seem to come to the realization how much of the law I was breaking. I even befriended Larbi, I saw photos, videos and video chatted with his young son, his mother and other family members & friends of his.

I trusted him after dealing with him for so long, not even thinking I was being scammed. That is life in Ghana, the scammers don't treat you like a horrible person, they often don't even run away from you after you confront them. Ghanaians seem to really think that what they are doing isn't immoral or illegal.

I mean who does this? John "Kwabena", Larbi and Yaw, they broke the law but were also the most immoral but didn't seem to think anything was wrong with their scamming.

Just yesterday there was news about 4 Ghanaians in the United States arrested with fake transcripts. They defrauded some $100 thousand dollars, in the comments on UTV Ghana's Facebook page, Ghanaians were posting prayers, blaming the government but not the Ghanaians that broke the law.

Only a handful posted about how they were ruining the name of Ghana, only one man went as far as to say that these guys should be punished severely.

This is the rampant lack of morality I witnessed everyday in Ghana, every damn day, where are these blindfolded African Americans living in Ghana, I really want to know.

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