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The Interior Minister, Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak, has announced that he has slowed down the issuance of gun licences as part of efforts to tighten controls on firearm ownership in Ghana.
The Interior Minister said he issued the directive after discovering that the process for obtaining a firearm licence was relatively straightforward and lacked sufficiently strict checks.
Speaking in an interview on Hot Issues on Sunday, March 15, 2026, he explained that applicants previously only needed to write to the minister, after which a background check was conducted before a licence was granted.
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“I came to the Ministry to realise that registration for guns was simple. You just write to the Minister, they do a background check, and it is granted. Now I have slowed down the granting of those licences,” he said.
Mr. Muntaka added that the ministry is also working to regulate the activities of firearm importers to prevent guns from being easily brought into the country and sold on the open market.
“We are moving to streamline the importers to ensure that people don’t just import and sell in the open market,” he stated.
The minister further disclosed that the government plans to digitalise the firearms registration and sales system to enable better monitoring of gun ownership across the country.
According to him, the initiative will allow security agencies to track every licensed firearm and its holder more effectively.
“We are moving to digitalise gun registration. That’s one of the things we are trying to do to make sure that we know every gun that every person is holding,” he said.
He also reminded firearm owners that gun licences in Ghana must be renewed annually, noting that all licences expire at the end of each calendar year, regardless of when they were issued.
“Even if you get the licence in November or December, once December 31 comes, it expires,” he explained.
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