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The governments of Ghana and the United Kingdom have signed an agreement for the voluntary transfer of Ghanaian prisoners in the UK to Ghana to continue with their sentences.<\/p>\n

The move is to help the prisoners to be in their country of origin closer to family members and be re-integrated back into society after serving their sentences.
Currently, there are between 150 and 200 Ghanaians in British prisons serving various jail terms.<\/p>\n

The acting British High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Mathew Johnson, made this known in Accra when he interacted with media personnel at the Media Open Day organized by the commission.<\/p>\n

The aim of the Media Open Day was to give an overview of the full range of activities undertaken by the British High Commission in Accra.<\/p>\n

The media personnel were taken round the commission and briefed on some of its key operations, including the Visa Section, Operation Westbridge, the Political Section, the Department for International Development (DFID), among others.<\/p>\n

Mr Johnson said the move was not mandatory and that the prisoners would have to choose whether to remain and finish their sentences, after which they would be deported, or serve in their own countries.<\/p>\n

He indicated that if a person was convicted for more than 12 months in the UK, he or she lost all rights to remain there and would be deported soon after serving the sentence. However, he said, by taking advantage of the Voluntary Prisoner Transfer programme, a convict would be offered a package through the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to enable him or her to start a business or learn a trade.<\/p>\n

The acting High Commissioner said since December 2007, Operation Westbridge had seen a series of deployment of experienced UK customs officers to Ghana to disrupt the flow of narcotics through Ghana to the UK and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

He said the criminal justice team had also provided an adviser who had worked with the Chief Justice, the Attorney-General and law enforcement agencies to formulate the Mutual Legal Assistant Act, train police, Immigration and NACOB officials, establish and build the capacity of the EOCO and foster international connections in the fight against organized crime.<\/p>\n

Mr Johnson reiterated the UK\u2019s commitment to increase development assistance to Ghana from \u00a385 million in 2010\/11 to \u00a3100 million by 2014\/15.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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