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Forty Deportees from United States arrive in Ghana

By Patience Gbeze, GNA    

Accra, Aug. 19, GNA – The Ghana Immigration
Service (GIS)  Kotoka International
Airport (KIA) Regional Command has received 40 deportees from the United States
of America  on board a chartered Boeing
777-OAE328 Omini air International flight.

The Ghanaians aged between 21 and 70 years,
made up of 38 males and two females, who were deported for various offences,
ranging from trafficking of banned substance, assault, vehicle theft, burglary,
fraud, domestic violence and immigration related issues.

They were admitted into the country after
going through the necessary disembarkation formalities, including screening to
authenticate their nationalities.

An official statement issued by the
Assistant Superintendent of Immigration (ASI) Barbara Sam, Public Relations
Officer, KIA and copied the Ghana News Agency, said 38 of them arrived on
Travel Certificates issued by the Ghana Mission in Washington DC, USA, whilst
the other two travelled on Ghanaian Passports.

According to the statement the deportees
came from various Regions of the country, with 16 of them coming from the
Greater Accra, 10 from Ashanti region, two each from Bono, Western and Central,
and three from the Volta region.

Present at the exercise were officials of
the GIS, Security Agencies and the National Disaster Management Organisation,
who ensured that the deportees were transported to their respective
destinations.

In another development, 12 Ghanaian females
have also been deported from Saudi Arabia for staying illegally in that
country.

The statement said the females, aged between
20 and 30, arrived on board an Ethiopia Airline Flight, with Travel
Certificates.

“The Ladies, most of them Junior High School
and Senior High School graduates, were working as domestic helps, Store keepers
and fuel attendants,” it added.

Eight of them are from the Northern region,
one each from the Bono and Central regions and two from Oti Region. They were
handed over to the Bureau of National Investigations for further action and had
since been released to join their families.

GNA 

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