{"id":686720,"date":"2019-08-20T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T15:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>ACI Edith Penelope Arhin, Greater Accra Regional GIS Commander<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifty two Ghanaian nationals have been deported from the\nUnited States and Saudi Arabia to Ghana, last weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the PRO of the"},"modified":"2019-08-20T15:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T15:12:18","slug":"52-deportees-arrive-from-us-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/20\/52-deportees-arrive-from-us-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"52 Deportees Arrive From US, Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>ACI Edith Penelope Arhin, Greater Accra Regional GIS Commander<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fifty two Ghanaian nationals have been deported from the<br \/>\nUnited States and Saudi Arabia to Ghana, last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>According to the PRO of the Kotoka International Airport<br \/>\n(KIA) Command of the GIS, ASI Barbara Sam, said 40 of the deportees who were<br \/>\nfrom the US, arrived onboard an Omini chartered Boeing 777-OAE 328 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The deportees aged between 21-70 and a gender distribution of<br \/>\n38 males and two females were deported for offences such as trafficking in<br \/>\nbanned substances, assault, vehicle theft, burglary, fraud, domestic violence<br \/>\nand immigration related issues.<\/p>\n<p>While 38 of the deportees arrived on travel certificates<br \/>\nissued by the Ghana Mission in Washington, DC, two did so, on Ghanaian<br \/>\npassports.<\/p>\n<p>The regional distribution of the deportees is 16 from the<br \/>\nGreater Accra Region, 10 from the Ashanti Region, two from Bono Region, two from<br \/>\nthe Western Region, two from Central Region, three from Eastern Region and<br \/>\nthree from the Volta Region.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival they went through disembarkation procedures<br \/>\nincluding screening to authenticate nationalities all in the presence of other<br \/>\nsecurity agents including officials of the National Disaster Management<br \/>\nOrganisation (NADMO) who ensured that they were taken to their final<br \/>\ndestinations.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development 12 Ghanaian females aged between 20<br \/>\nand 30 were deported from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The JHS and SSCE holders arrived aboard an Ethiopian Airline<br \/>\nflight all of them holding Ghanaian travel certificates.<\/p>\n<p>The deportees who were engaged as domestic helps, nannies,<br \/>\ncleaners, teachers of kids of hosts and fuel attendants in the Arab country complained<br \/>\nof working overtime, withholding of salaries by their hosts, maltreatment and<br \/>\npoor feeding.<\/p>\n<p>They have since been handed over to the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for further action. <\/p>\n<p><strong>By A.R. 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According to the PRO of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) Command of the GIS, ASI Barbara Sam, said 40 of the deportees who were from the US, arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":686721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>52 Deportees Arrive From US, Saudi Arabia - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/20\/52-deportees-arrive-from-us-saudi-arabia\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"52 Deportees Arrive From US, Saudi Arabia - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"ACI Edith Penelope Arhin, Greater Accra Regional GIS Commander Fifty two Ghanaian nationals have been deported from the United States and Saudi Arabia to Ghana, last weekend. 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