Interior Minister, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, has reaffirmed government’s commitment to strengthening border security and safeguarding the lives of security personnel.
He has pledged that everything humanly possible will be done to heal the injured Immigration Officer, and has warned that smuggled explosives remain a deadly threat because they enter the country untraced and unstored.
He has also said government will intensify public education on explosives, strengthen enforcement, and prosecute offenders, while urging the public to come forward with information.
The Minister, who visited the injured Immigration Officer on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, following the Hamiley border explosion, said the state will stand by the officer.
“As an officer of the state, we will ensure that everything that can be done humanly possible to heal, we will,” he said, adding that Ghana already has clear rules for handling explosives.
He explained that anyone who wants to bring in explosives must go through the Interior Ministry first, in order to ensure it doesn’t cause such harms.
“When it comes to explosives, you need to apply to the Ministry of Interior to even import and when it comes you notify Ministry of Interior and they normally put them in what we call magazines that is secured,” he said.
Muntaka added that system makes every legal consignment traceable. “So it is traceable. Every single one of them you can trace that this is the importer who brought it,” he explained.
According to him, Ghana porous nature of the nation’s borders make the tracking and tracing of explosives difficult, allowing smugglers to bypass that entire system.
“But unfortunately because of the porous nature of our borders people try to smuggle and it comes unmarked, untraced, they won’t put it in a magazine so the least thing it explodes,” he added.
He additionally indicated that government will step up education, since many people still treat explosives as ordinary items. “We are going to intensity education. People should know that these are like weapons.”
He said the Hamile incident shows why explosives must never be kept at home, saying they are highly specialised product that is handled jointly with the Minerals Commission.
“They saw what this did so they cannot put it under your bed or keep it in home. There is a special storage facility for it. It’s a very specialised product so we do this with the Minerals Commission,” he stated.
The Asawase Member of Parliament also stressed the need for officers at his outfit to be trained to spot explosives from a distance to avoid similar occurrences.
“So we need to educate our officers so that they can even see this with bare eyes, even from a distance because when they were chasing him, if they knew it was explosive, maybe they would have acted differently,” he said.
On enforcement, he said offenders will face prosecution. “When we get people, we’ll prosecute them.”
He urged the general population to help security agencies with information to track down smugglers.
“So we want to encourage the general population to help us with information. Informants, please come forward and let us know and we’ll surely act,” he said.
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