Now the maximum penalty for piracy in Ghana will be reduced to fifteen years in prison. This is one of the major reforms of the new bill being prepared by the Ghana Justice and Maritime Authority.

Currently in Ghana, it would be very difficult to convict pirates if they were arrested. The Attorney General, the Office of the Minister of Justice and the Ghana Maritime Authority are working on a new draft law, with the support of UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime). The country is therefore in tune with other nations in the subregion by adopting legislation to be able to condemn pirates. Togo and Nigeria have recently been able to hold their first trials for acts of piracy. In recent years, pirates have been extending their actions further and further into the waters of the Gulf of Guinea, going up to several hundred miles from the Niger Delta, the epicenter of the phenomenon, to kidnap sailors who are released for ransom. Thus, Ghana, which is not bordering, has recorded nine pirate attacks in its territorial waters since 2020.