Ghana Police says Ghana Jollof is wanted. She is in the UK. TikTok is shouting. But here is the truth that Police PR will not tell you:
This case will fail. It has already failed.
Not because UK loves criminals. But because Ghana Police does not understand extradition.
This is why:
1. A WANTED POSTER IS NOT A WARRANT
What police posted is not law. It is PR.
In Ghana, to arrest someone, you need a warrant signed by a judge under Act 30, Section 22. With evidence on oath.
To arrest someone in UK, you need more: You need Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London to issue a UK arrest warrant based on Ghana’s request.
A flyer on Ghana Police Facebook page has zero legal value in Heathrow. A UK border officer will see it and do nothing. Because it is not from Interpol, it is not from UK Home Office, it is not from a court.
Until Ghana Police shows us a court warrant and charge sheet, this is just noise.
2. YOU CANNOT EXTRADITE INSULT
What is Ghana Jollof’s crime? Police has not said.
If it is “offensive conduct,” “insulting behaviour,” “false news,” “defamation of a big man” – then UK law says NO.
UK and Ghana extradite under the London Scheme for Commonwealth Extradition and UK Extradition Act 2003.
Two rules in that law kill this case instantly:
a) Dual Criminality: The act must be a crime in BOTH countries carrying 12 months or more.
UK abolished criminal insult, criminal libel, and “offensive communication” as extraditable offences. In UK, you can insult the Prime Minister on TikTok every day. It is called free speech. It is not a crime.
So if Ghana says “she insulted a chief,” UK judge will ask “is insulting a chief a crime in UK?” Answer: No. Case dismissed.
b) Free Speech Bar: Article 10 of European Convention on Human Rights protects TikTok speech. UK courts have refused to extradite to Ghana, Turkey, Rwanda for speech offences before.
In 2022, Ghana Supreme Court itself in Sakyi vs Republic said Section 208 of Act 29 on false news cannot be used to silence opinion.
UK will use that same judgment to refuse Ghana.
Unless Ghana Police is charging her for fraud, murder, armed robbery, drug trafficking over 2 years – this is dead on arrival.
3. INTERPOL WILL NOT SAVE YOU
Police will say “We will use Interpol.”
Interpol will say No.
Interpol Red Notice rules: It will not issue Red Notice for:
– Political offences
– Speech offences
– Offences with less than 2 years sentence
– Cases where prison conditions violate human rights
Ghana Jollof’s alleged TikTok offence falls in all four.
Even if Accra gets a Red Notice, UK police treat Red Notice as “please locate” not “please arrest.” Metropolitan Police will not raid a house in Birmingham for a TikTok video from Ghana.
4. UK COURTS WILL ASK ABOUT NSAWAM
Let us assume Ghana does everything right and sends extradition request to London.
At Westminster Court, the judge will ask one question:
“If I send this 24-year-old girl to Ghana, where will you keep her?”
Ghana must answer.
If answer is Nsawam, Ankaful, Kumasi Central – UK will refuse.
Why? Because in 2018 in the case of Government of Ghana vs Kofi Essel, Westminster Magistrates’ Court refused extradition to Ghana citing overcrowding, 300% capacity, no bed, no ventilation, violation of Article 3 – Inhuman and Degrading Treatment.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled Ghana’s remand system as inhumane.
UK will demand assurance that she will be kept in a “Category A” prison with 5sqm per person, medical care, and trial within 6 months.
Ghana cannot give that assurance. Because Ghana does not have that prison. And Ghana does not give trial within 6 months. People are on remand for 3 years.
So judge will say: “I cannot send her to face inhuman treatment for a TikTok case.”
5. COST AND SHAME
Extradition costs money.
Ghana must hire a London barrister at £400 per hour. Total cost £100,000 – £200,000. For 18 months.
Ministry of Justice will ask: We should spend £200k to bring a TikToker who insulted someone?
Home Office in UK will also ask: Why should British taxpayer spend court time for this?
Both sides will quietly kill the file.
That is what happened to Twene Jonas. Declared wanted in 2021. Still in New York doing TikTok Live every night. Because US said “not extraditable.”
THE REAL MOTIVE
So why declare her wanted?
It is to scare Ghanaians at home. To say “we are working.” To silence other TikTokers.
But law is not fear. Law is process.
If Ghana Jollof truly defrauded someone, robbed someone, threatened to kill – then charge her properly, get warrant, go through AG, send to UK, and bring her.
If it is just insult and gossip – then file civil defamation in UK High Court. Sue her in London. UK allows that. But you must pay UK lawyers.
What you cannot do is post a flyer and expect Scotland Yard to carry Ghana Police bag.
Ghana Jollof will not come to Ghana in handcuffs. She will come if she wants to come, for Christmas, on her own ticket.
Ghana Police wanted list is full of people in US, UK, Germany, Canada. None has been brought for speech.
This will fail like the others. Not because UK protects her. But because Ghana Police arrested the law itself.
Stop the posters. Learn extradition.
The gown is not yours.