The Ghana Immigration Service in the Volta Region has apprehended 20 foreign nationals who allegedly entered the country without valid documents, reportedly using Ghana as a transit point en route to Côte d’Ivoire.
The group, comprising nationals from Niger, Nigeria, and Togo, stated that they were travelling to Côte d’Ivoire and not Ghana. However, immigration officials remain unconvinced.
The Volta Regional Commander of the Ghana Immigration Service, Deputy Commissioner of Immigration Peter Yaw Nkrumah, told Citi News that the individuals will be deported to their point of entry in line with immigration procedures.
“The people you see over here are travellers, some are from Northern Nigeria, some are from Burkina Faso, and some are from Niger. Their accounts are conflicting.
“Some say they are going to Madina, some too say they are going to Côte d’Ivoire. So right now we don’t know where they are going. If they are going to Abidjan, we believe that the best way from Aflao is through Sogakope but these people were intercepted at Asikuma.
“And since the stories are not the same, we believe that they are not telling us the right stories. They are not even having any good documents to come and show us that they are travelling from here to here.
“So the best thing for them in this circumstance is to return them to the entry point where they claim they have crossed from.”
Source: CitiNews
