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Officials say deportees were well
treated at Aflao border
Aflao, March 1, GNA - The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS)
and the National Disaster and Management Organization (NADMO)
at Aflao on Thursday said it was not true that 20 Ghanaians
who were deported from Nigeria this week were left
un-catered for and were roaming the streets of Aflao.
Mr Emmanuel Amoako Yirenkyi, Assistant Director of GIS in
charge of Aflao, told the GNA in an interview that his
outfit handed over the group to officials of NADMO hours
after their arrival and registration.
Mr Moise Kwame Agbodzalu, the Ketu District NADMO
Coordinator, said the group was transported to Accra barely
24 hours after their arrival.
He said during their short stay the deportees, mainly from
the Central, Eastern and Western regions, were housed at the
Aflao Urban Council Hall and provided with regular meals and
did not roam the streets of the border town.
The leader of the group, Mr. Samuel Arthur, 52, told the GNA
that they were picked at work places at various parts of the
Ondo State by Nigeria security and detained for a week
before their deportation without the opportunity to pick
their properties and families.
He expressed gratitude to officials of Ghana Embassy in
Benin and police at Coutonu for their support after they
were dumped at Seme, Benin, with no means of transport or
food.
This is the second batch of Ghanaian deportees from Nigeria
in a week after the arrival of five others last Friday
following the reported threat by the Nigerian authorities to
flush out illegal aliens as part of preparations for their
presidential elections in April.
GNA
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