The Ghana Immigration Service has restated it’s commitment towards protecting the country’s borders.
It said it will continue to do this by deporting all foreign nationals who enter the country through unapproved routes within the Upper West Region.
The Upper West Regional Public Affairs Officer of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Assistant Inspector Ibn Yussif Abdul-Mumin Seidu in a statement disclosed that more people have been apprended in the region for using some unapproved routes.
This is the second time in the week the GIS has taken such an action.
The details of the arrest were contained in a statement signed by the Upper West Regional Public Affairs Officer of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Assistant Inspector Ibn Yussif Abdul-Mumin Seidu and copied to A1 Radio at Wa.
“At about 08:45 hrs, this morning [20th August], the vigilant Immigration Service personnel on duty at the Kucheni Temporal Checkpoint in the Jirapa Municipality rounded up some Eighteen(18) Foreign National onboard a Yutong Bus with registration number GC 5114 – Z journeying to Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. Our preliminary investigations revealed that they entered into Ghana through unapproved routes. The purpose of their visit include business, family visits as well as medical care,” the statement said.
The statement continued to say that “the busted undocumented migrants were made up of eleven (11) Malian nationals, five (05) Guineans, one (01) Gambian and one (01) Sierra Leone national.
Their ages ranged between Seven and Fourty-Seven years. They comprised of 12 males and six females”.
According to Asst. Inspector Abdul-Mumin Seidu, the 18 were screened by the Port Health authorities before being handed over to the Burkina Faso authorities on the other side of the border at the Hamile Border Post.
He said while no Ghanaian has been arrested aiding these foreign nationals cross into the country, the GIS is working assiduously to apprehend such persons.
He continued to say that “it is important to note that while the personnel of the Ghana Immigration Service is determined to subdue the menace of irregular migration, we’re also enforcing the President’s directive on the land borders closure. With the full backing of the Comptroller General of Ghana Immigration Service, we’re leaving no stone unturned in in our resolve to combat illegal migration. To those who are complicit in this illegality, we can assure them that their days of reckoning are closer”.
Source: A1Radioonline.com| 101.1MHz| Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith| Ghana
