Samuel Basintale Amadu

Samuel Basintale Amadu is a Ghanaian immigration officer and public official who has served as Comptroller-General of the Ghana Immigration Service since March 2025. He has spent more than three decades in the Service, holding senior operational, administrative, and command positions prior to his appointment as its head.

Career Amadu joined the Ghana Immigration Service on 1 September 1993. He was promoted to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Immigration in November 2000 and subsequently served as Staff Officer at the Aflao Command and at the Western Europe Section at the Service’s national headquarters.

He later served as Head of the Ghana Passport Processing Section at the Service’s headquarters from 2005 to September 2008. From September 2008 to October 2009, he was Second-in-Command of the National Enforcement Department before being appointed Second-in-Command and Acting Commander at Accra International Airport, a position he held from October 2009 to 2017.