Ghana has slapped down Britain's 'Operation Dead Meat' plan in which they hoped to send over thousands of asylum seekers to the West African nation.
Home Office officials were said to have approached officials in Ghana and Rwanda with plans to set up processing immigration hubs.
This would mean hundreds of migrants arriving in the UK from France would have been flown to those countries while their asylum claims are processed.
But Ghanaian officials blasted any reports of such plans insisting they have never held any discussions with Home Office officials.
And its foreign office appeared to mock Boris Johnson's strategy to save himself with his 'Operation Red Meat' strategy which they called 'Operation Dead Meat'.
Operation Red Meat is part of Operation Big Dog.
Apparently it's the code name for the policies Mr Johnson hopes will keep his backbenchers on side after facing the fury of their constituents over the “partygate” allegations.
In a statement Ghana's foreign ministry said: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration wishes to state categorically that Ghana has not engaged with the UK on any such plan and does not intend to consider any such operation in the future.
"It is recalled in this regard that the Ministry on the 8th of September, 2021 debunked in a tweet a news item on Sky News UK about a possible Ghana interest in a partnership agreement with the UK to host deported or returned migrants of Third Countries from the UK.
"The position of the Government has not changed and the Ministry advises that any publication that implies otherwise should be ignored."
More than 770 people have made the dangerous journey across the Channel in small boats so far this year, following a record-breaking year in 2021 when at least 28,000 arrived in the UK.
Last summer Ms Patel claimed the UK and Ghana had a "friendship".
Boasting of their so-called relationship on Twitter the Home Secretary added: "The UK and Ghana have a strong and established relationship. It's not just a partnership, but a friendship.
"And on Wednesday, President Addo & I spoke about deepening that friendship, celebrating the links between us to make the UK & Ghana safer and more prosperous.
"Ghana's statement in response to reports yday that it is in talks with Britain about hosting a processing centre for UK asylum seekers States that it is not engaged in any such discussions and 'does not intend to consider any such operation in the future."
It's not the first time the Ms Patel has failed to get to grips with the migrant crisis.
Whenever the issue starts to rise up the agenda, Government sources begin appearing in the media with increasingly wild ideas.
These included reports of a madcap proposal to use a giant wave machines to deter dinghies - but Dan O’Mahoney, who heads the Home Office’s response to Channel crossings, insisted his department had not looked at the idea.
Agreeing deals with foreign nations would cost hundreds of millions of pounds, while forcing migrants onto flights would also create security issues.
Previous plans for applications to be processed on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic or in Albania were shelved.
Albanian PM Edi Rama said he would "never receive refugees for richer countries".
