Sex offender facing deportation tells cops Canadian laws ‘don’t apply to me’

'He clearly does not view Indigenous women as people,' the Crown attorney said of the man from Ghana

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Published Apr 16, 2026  •  Last updated 10 minutes ago  •  2 minute read

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Canadian laws didn’t apply to Gilbert Nuamah.

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That’s what the convicted sex offender facing deportation allegedly told cops who had just arrested him for sexually assaulting an Indigenous woman.

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“I’m not even a Canadian citizen… so your laws don’t apply to me,” Nuamah told police in Winnipeg.

And then he threatened to drive the victim to the edge of the city, vowing to leave her in the icy cold to freeze to death.

Pleaded guilty to charges

The 37-year-old Winnipeg man pleaded guilty to one count each of sexual assault and forcible confinement in February. Nuamah remains in custody and is slated to be sentenced at a later date.

“He clearly does not view Indigenous women as people,” Crown attorney Laura Martin told provincial court Judge Anne Krahn in February.

“The state of our country in terms of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is a state of crisis, and this is someone who is actively telling this court he wants to participate in that.”

How the sex assault happened

According to the Winnipeg Free Press, the victim, Nuamah and others were drinking at the convicted man’s home on Dec. 27, 2025. The victim called her brother to pick her up. Nuamah was not happy with that.

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He dragged the terrified woman to a bedroom, locked the door, and sexually assaulted her. Others in the home told her brother she wasn’t there. He didn’t believe them and called cops.

When officers arrived, they knocked on the bedroom door.

Nuamah yelled: “F*** off and mind your own business … I need five more minutes.”

Officers broke the door down and found the sex offender naked from the waist down. Martin said the victim was cowering in a corner looking “shocked.”

Nuamah was put in the cruiser and asked the shocked officers: “Is it illegal to take a drunk s**** home from the bar and try to f*** her?”

There was more. When he was released, he vowed he would “take (the victim) and some other s****s out to the Perimeter and let them freeze.”

Had been ordered deported

Originally from Ghana, Nuamah had lived in the U.S. before arriving in Canada in 2017. That January, then-prime minister Justin Trudeau told the world: “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada.”

When he was arrested for the Winnipeg sex assault, Nuamah had been living illegally in Canada and had been ordered deported.

He got bail butwas  arrested and taken back into custody not long after when he failed to surrender his passport. He remains detained.

Martin said at his January bail hearing: “The Crown has significant concerns for the safety of the community of vulnerable Indigenous women and males and very concerned (Nuamah) will flee the jurisdiction.”

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