Ghana's sports ministry has denied it had anything to do with 50 allegedly fake journalists getting visas for the Commonwealth Games.

Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Pius Enam Hadzide, told news site Graphic it would be launching a probe - but the visas were not awarded by his department.

“We did not sponsor journalists, we didn’t sponsor supporters, we didn’t sponsor anybody to the Commonwealth Games, we didn’t handle accreditation and for international tournaments, the ministry doesn’t handle accreditation,” he told the Ghanaian outlet.

The denial comes after it was reported about 50 people, claiming to be journalists, had arrived in Australia, ostensibly to cover the Commonwealth Games.

The Australian authorities, however, suspected they were not genuine.

Mr Hadidze told Ghana's StarrFM Online Australian authorities are "not convinced that some of the Ghanaians who purport to go and cover the commonwealth games intend to return to Ghana after the games”.