{"id":1186213,"date":"2022-08-22T07:17:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T07:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/22\/i-regret-travelling-to-libya-with-my-5-year-savings-italy-based-ghanaian\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T07:17:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T07:17:51","slug":"i-regret-travelling-to-libya-with-my-5-year-savings-italy-based-ghanaian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/22\/i-regret-travelling-to-libya-with-my-5-year-savings-italy-based-ghanaian\/","title":{"rendered":"I regret travelling to Libya with my 5-year savings \u2013 Italy-based Ghanaian \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Ghanaian citizen now residing in Italy said that he had secretly put aside GHc12,000 over the course of five years in order to fund his travel to Libya in order to cross into Europe.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Francis Yankey has remarked that he formerly believed that going to other countries would assist him in bettering his life, but he now regrets his choice to do so.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0\u2018Don\u2019t travel outside if you have a better job in Ghana, I\u2019ve regretted travelling\u2019 \u2013 Man<\/p>\n<p>The young guy indicated that before relocating outside of Ghana in quest of better opportunities, he had worked in Ghana as a driver and a security guard. He added that he had previously worked in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>He asserts that very few individuals survive the travel from Libya to Europe, and he freely confesses that he was afraid at various points throughout the trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saved GH\u00a212000 in five years. It was mainly because of the Libya trip. It has always been a dream to travel abroad. I worked two jobs to get that money,\u201d he told SVTV Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey camped seventy-two of us in a ghetto on Thursday and waited until Saturday evening before setting off onto the sea. There were sixty-nine Ghanaians, two Nigerians and one Ivorian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my mind, I had left everything to God, but I got scared when I saw the large body of water. While on the sea, Libyan authorities found out and tried to take us back to Libya, but luckily, we found ourselves in a no man\u2019s land.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO: I\u2019ll return to Ghana if I get one tipper truck; I\u2019ve regretted travelling \u2013 Ghanaian man in Germany<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they couldn\u2019t arrest us. A German rescue team told us to wait for an Italian ship to transport us. We waited for five hours until they came and stayed on their ship for a week before arriving in Sicily,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; A Ghanaian citizen now residing in Italy said that he had secretly put aside GHc12,000 over the course of five years in order to fund his travel to Libya in order to cross into Europe. Francis Yankey has remarked that he formerly believed that going to other countries would assist him in bettering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1186215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6056,1750,18469,12493,2662,5396,7992],"class_list":["post-1186213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-5year","tag-ghanaian","tag-italybased","tag-libya","tag-regret","tag-savings","tag-travelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}