Nineteen Nigerians, who attempted to vacation out of Ghana to Niger by means of Burkina Faso contrary to the President’s directive on the closure of all the countrywide borders, have been arrested at Hamile, in the Higher West Area.
The illegal migrants had been all males, aged among 14 and 43, ended up arrested on Friday, at about 0820HRS at Defeat two, an unapproved route bordering neighbouring Burkina Faso in the Hamile Sector Command of the Ghana Immigration Company (GIS).
A assertion signed by Mr. Ibn Yussif Duranah Abdul-Mumin Seidu, the Upper West Regional Public Relations Officer (Pro) for GIS, and copied to the Ghana Information Agency (GNA) in Wa reported they have been resident in the Ashanti Region ahead of making an attempt to migrate to Niger for greener pastures.
In accordance to the assertion, the culprits experienced been screened by the Port Health Officers and despatched back to the Ashanti Area in which they lived.
Mr Seidu explained to the GNA that the GIS Officials at the Babile Inland Examine Issue arrested 10 Burkina Faso nationals “during a regime exercising of screening and profiling of persons in buses and other vehicular traffic”.
“The ten ECOWAS nationals were being onboard a industrial Utong bus with registration quantity GT 4356-16 from Hamile touring to Kumasi”, he explained.
He described that the illegal Burkinabe migrants, who sneaked into Ghana by unapproved routes, had been screened and handed about to the Burkina Faso authorities for the vital action to be taken.
“Until or else made a decision, the President’s directive on the closure of our borders as part of the measures to combat COVID-19 in Ghana continues to be enforced. Again, the unapproved routes linking neighbouring nations are inaccessible as it is illegal”, Mr Seidu said.
Whilst entreating migrants to desist from touring by way of unapproved routes into and out of Ghana, the Professional gave the assurance that the GIS would not relent on its endeavours to nib the unlawful follow in the bud.
“We call on Ghanaians to volunteer information to assist protected our territorial borders”, Mr. Seidu claimed.
