Ghanaians in Libya hit by air strikes but Baba Jamal denies any attack

The Libyan province called Sabha, on the South West of Tripoli where some 4,000 Ghanaians have gathered waiting to be rescued was reportedly hit on Sunday night by bomb.

BBC news also reported that Britain’s Ministry of Defence said its Tornado GR4 aircraft carried out strikes on ammunition bunkers on Monday morning in the Sabha region, in the southern Libya desert.

The stranded Ghanaians who are waiting to be rescued told Adom News that some of their colleagues who sustained injury from the explosion had been sent to local for treatment.

The frustrated Ghanaians said they might have no other option than to walk through the desert like some of them did some days back, to get back home if the government fails to rescue them.

Recently some 54 Ghanaians walked through the desert to Ghana while others are reportedly doing same because little is being seen of government’s promise to convey them home with buses.

But Deputy Minister of Information Baba Jamal has denied the occurrence of any such incident.
Baba Jamal said those who are still in Libya are refusing to obey orders. According to him, some Ghanaian nationals have just refused to comply by their directive to them to gather at a convention point in Tripoli and other cities.

“Those who listened to our directive to gather at the convention point have all been brought home, the rest there are just those who had disobeyed the government directive”, he stated.

Baba Jamal revealed that so far the government has been able to convey about 18,000 Ghanaians from Libya.
He advised Ghanaians there should move to the Niamey border for them to be transported by road to the country.

The deputy Information Minister revealed that Ghana has been congratulated by CNN and Al-Jazeera for the quick intervention in repatriating her citizens from Libya.

He claimed that Ghana was the first country to start repatriation of its citizens ahead of the British and the United States.

Baba Jamal reiterated that Ghana has been an example to all Africans in their quick response on action to return its citizens stranded in Libya home.

Story: Samuel Mantey/ Adom news