Germany and UK deport 22 Ghanaians

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By John Elliot HAGAN, Accra

The Kotoka International Airport (KIA) Regional Command of the Ghana Immigration Service has received 17 Ghanaian deportees from Germany on board chartered flight CT3721.

The deportees, all males, who are aged between 21 and 60 years, were escorted by 67 police officers, including paramedics.

They were deported for immigration-related issues such as overstaying their entry permit and illegal stay.

The 17 deportees had stayed in Germany for between three and 10 years, with 15 of them arriving on Travel Certificates (TC) issued by Ghana Embassy in Berlin, Germany, and the other two on Ghanaian passports.

Regional breakdown

Ten of the deportees are from the Ashanti Region, five from Greater Accra, and one each from the Bono and Northern regions.

In an interview with one of the deportees, who is a university graduate and has lived in Germany since 2016, he stated that he is not bitter about the deportation because he was given a three-month visitor’s permit to remain in the country, but stayed beyond that. He said he feels disappointed in himself for wasting all these three years without doing anything meaningful with his life.

Five others deported from UK

In a related development, the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) has also deported five Ghanaians for overstaying their entry permit.

The five, who also arrived with chartered flight HFY221, were under 63 escorts, including two paramedics, and one official from the High Commissioner as an observer.

The deportees, who are aged between 26 and 60 years, were working and schooling and had lived in the UK for between five months and 10 years.

Three arrived with UK Overstay Certificates issued by the British authorities and two on Ghanaian passports.

Regional distribution

The regional distribution is Ashanti, two; Greater Accra, two; and one from the Bono region.

In all, a total of 22 deportees have been received by the KIA Regional Command from UK and Germany.

They were admitted into the country after going through the necessary arrival procedures, including screening to authenticate their nationalities and counselling by a clinical psychologist.

Present at the exercise were officials from the Ghana Immigration Service and other security agencies, including National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), who facilitated the transportation of the deportees to their various destinations.

Commander of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) Regional Command of the Ghana Immigration Service, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration (ACI) Edith Penelope Arhin advised prospective travellers to always endeavour to travel with the requisite documents and visas and also ensure they return within the given period to avoid forced deportation.

This is because deportation can ruin one’s chance of ever travelling to that country again.

 

 

Source: The Finder


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Kennedy Mornah is an Award Winning Ghanaian Journalist with over two decades of experience in the Ghanaian Media landscape spanning the electronic, print and digital media. He is a Media Consultant, a Corporate MC, Radio and TV Host, Founder and Publisher of the Maritime and Transport Digest Newspaper, Businessman, a Go getter and an optimist. He has worked for renowned media organizations including Diamond Fm in Tamale, Luv Fm in Kumasi, Oman Fm in Accra and Starr Fm in Accra In 2017 he received the Reporter of the Year Award at the Ghana Shippers Awards in Accra, Ghana.

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