12 Nigeriens Intercepted by GIS and denied entry into Ghana
Investigations revealed that the migrants were herdsmen heading to the Southern part of Ghana to ply their trade.
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The Ghana Immigration Service, GIS has intercepted twelve (12) migrants from Niger and denied them entry into Ghana.
The Nigerien used an unapproved root and entered Hamile were arrested by GIS including seven (7) adults and five (5) minors. The GIS through its Public Affairs Unit issued a press statement to the media including Soireenews.com indicated that these foreigners were in two (2) separate groups heading to Kumasi and Koforidua respectively.
The statement further indicated that the migrants who had transited through Burkina Faso will be returned through same root back to Niger.
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Please read the full statement below:
TO: ALL MEDIA HOUSES
FROM: PAO, UWR
SUBJ: TWELVE NIGERIENES REFUSED ENTRY INTO GHANA
DATE: 31ST JAN. 2021
On 31ST January 2021, t about 0930HRS, some twelve Niger nationals comprising of seven (07) adults and five (05) minors who had entered Ghana through unapproved routes were seized.
On the said day, the vigilant personnel of the Ghana Immigration Service in the Hamile sector command picked up the ECOWAS migrants in the Hamile township after they had illegally and unlawfully entered Ghana ostensibly to proceed to Kumasi and Koforidua.
Our preliminary investigations revealed that the migrants were herdsmen heading to the Southern part of Ghana to ply their trade. Their ages ranged between six (06) and fifty (50) years.
The Burkina Faso authorities on the other side of the border facilitated the redirection of the undocumented migrants back to their home country, Niger, through Burkina Faso, where they were transiting.
In the meantime, we urge the general public, particularly, the border residents to support us to combat the menace of irregular migration to and from Ghana. Inasmuch as the service applauds the good people of Ghana who gives us information, we shall not spare anyone who is caught facilitating activities of irregular migration.
Aside the President’s directive on the land border closure, it is an operational function of the Ghana Immigration Service to combat undocumented or prohibited migration to and from Ghana.
Signed: ASST. INSPECTOR IBN YUSSIF DURANAH ABDUL-MUMIN SEIDU
UPPER WEST REGIONAL PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER
GHANA IMMIGRATION SERVICE
0552299524
By Abdul Sammed Gurundari, Wa Regional Correspondent
