Police arrest two and seize suspected counterfeit GTP fabrics worth GH¢20m at Adabraka

Police have arrested two men and seized large quantities of assorted wax print fabrics suspected to be counterfeit GTP products at a warehouse in Adabraka, Accra, according to a police statement and on Thursday 12 November 2026.

The police said the operation was carried out on Monday 9 November by the Inspector-General of Police's Special Operations Team (SOT), following intelligence that two articulated trucks suspected to have come from Nigeria were offloading contraband at a warehouse off the Kojo Thompson Highway.

The consignment, believed to have been smuggled into Ghana from Nigeria, is estimated to be worth about GH¢20 million, the police said. The two suspects, aged 50 and 44, were arrested at the scene. They have not been charged in court, and police said they were assisting investigations.

The fabrics have been taken to the National Police Headquarters in Accra, and police said efforts were under way to identify others involved in importing and distributing the goods.

that the operation formed part of a joint anti-counterfeit drive involving local textile manufacturers. It quoted Schandorf Nii Obodai, Environmental Sustainability Manager at Tex Styles Ghana, the maker of GTP, as saying the fabrics carried imitations of the company's designs and that smuggled, untaxed fakes harm both state revenue and local producers. He said genuine GTP cloth is made only in Ghana.