U/W: 26 Burkinabes Arrested For Entering Ghana Illegally Repatriated

Twenty six Burkina Faso nationals apprehended by the Upper West Regional Police Command for entering the Ghana through unapproved or the unlawful routes have all been repatriated. Nineteen of the illegal immigrants were arrested on Wednesday, June 9, by immigration

officers on the Gwollu stretch bordering neighbouring Burkina Faso. They were arrested on board a Hyundai bus with registration number, GS-4763-12 heading for Wa. The first nineteen included 13 men and six women, aged between Eight and Fifty-Eight years. Investigations

by officials of the Ghana Immigration Service revealed that they were journeying to the country for farming and other economic activities and they were subsequently screened by health personnel before being handed over to the Burkina Faso authorities on the other side of the border.

Nandom arrest

On the same day, Immigration officials at the Nandom District office also arrested 7 Burkina Faso nationals who illegally entered into Ghana through unapproved routes on the Hamile stretch bordering neighbouring Burkina Faso. They were also fished out in the midst of

Ghanaian passengers on board a metro mass transit bus enroute to Sunyani. The all-male irregular migrants were all repatriated through the Hamile Border Post. As part of our efforts to also clamp down on the irregular, undocumented or the prohibited migration to and from

Ghana and we’re urging the public to support the border security agencies to tackle the menace, the Upper West Regional Public Affairs Officer of Immigration Service, Asst. Insp. Ibn Yussif Duranah Abdul-Mumin Seidu said in a statement.