Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has reacted to international media reports about a United States deportation of a Salvadorian named Abrego Garcia to Ghana.
Various international media outlets on Friday, October 10, 2025 reported that the United States Department of Homeland Security said it now plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Ghana, according to a notice from the agency to his attorneys.
DHS previously said it was planning to deport Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador and then brought back to the U.S., to Eswatini and Uganda.
However, reacting to the reports in a Facebook post, Ablakwa clarified that Ghana is not accepting Abrego Garcia.
He contended that the information about Abrego’s deportation to Ghana has been “directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities.”
Ablakwa stressed that in Ghana’s engagement with US authorities, it was clearly agreed that Ghana will only accept non-criminal West Africans purely on grounds of solidarity and humanitarian and no other national.
“In my interactions with US officials, I made clear that our understanding to accept a limited number of non-criminal West Africans, purely on the grounds of African solidarity and humanitarian principles would not be expanded.
“Ghana strongly objects to these misleading media reports,” he added.
