Kwako, a resident of the West African country of Ghana, arrived in the country yesterday via a flight from El Salvador, just after 9 a.m. When he arrived at the immigration check-in section, the officer on duty referred him to the Supervisor for Secondary inspection, which is standard practice with citizens coming from that country. When he was asked, he presented the immigration supervisor with a Ghanaian passport which identified him as Yaw Mensah. This person had supposedly been granted a US Visa, which would have expired last year. After closer inspection, the supervisor realized that this passport document had been altered. After it was tested using technical equipment, the supervisor realized that the original owner's photograph had been removed, and Kwako's photo was then added in. The passport was then restitched and then re-laminated.

Because the passport was detected as a forged document, the Immigration officers questioned Kwako informing him that he was being denied entry into the country. That's when he retrieved his actual passport which properly identified him, and which was officially granted to him by Ghanaian Immigration. He was then formally arrested and charged with the offence of using an immigration document that he was not entitled to.