[ 2021-02-09 ]

Illegal entry into Ghana
Illegal entry into Ghana: 51 foreigners deported
…after being intercepted at Asikuma Inland Check
Point in V/R

FORTY-NINE Beninois and two Togolese who allegedly
entered Ghana through unapproved routes earlier
this month have been deported.

This was after personnel of the Ghana Immigration
Service (GIS) at the Asikuma Inland Check Point
intercepted the Hyundai Universe Express, AW
9955-19 on which they were travelling from the
Volta Region towards Accra, last Wednesday.

A GIS spokesman disclosed these to the Ghanaian
Times in Ho at the weekend.

He said the arrests were made after the occupants
of the vehicle were subjected to a thorough
scrutiny during which it was found that they
entered Ghana from Togo by flouting the official
border closure.

The spokesman said that the travellers who
included 36 males and 15 females admitted that
they were assisted by some ‘okada’ operators
to gain access into Ghana from the other side of
the frontier.

The travellers also said that they were heading
for Ivory Coast to seek greener pastures.

After they were taken through COVID-19 screening,
the travellers were sent back to Lome, the
spokesman added.

Meanwhile, the GIS Command in Volta Region has
entreated travellers going through the Asikuma
Sogakope Inland Check Points to cooperate with the
current strategic security arrangements aimed at
tracking down illegal immigrants in those areas.

Source - Ghanaian Times

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