TO ALL NEWS EDITORS 24th September, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRESS RELEASE
GERMANY DEPORTS 17 GHANAIANS

The Kotoka International Airport (KIA) Regional Command of the Ghana Immigration
Service, has received seventeen (17) Ghanaian deportees from Germany on board a
chartered Flight CT3721.

The deportees all males, who are aged between 21 - 60 years were escorted by sixty
seven (67) Police officers, including paramedics. They were deported for
immigration related issues such as over- staying their entry permit and illegal stay.

The Seventeen deportees (17) who had stayed in German between three (3) and ten
(10) years arrived with fifteen (15) of them arriving on Travel Certificates (TC) issued
by Ghana Embassy in Berlin, Germany, and the other two on Ghanaian passports.

Ten (10) of the deportees are from Ashanti Region, five (5) from Greater Accra, and
one each (1) from Bono and the Northern Regions.

In an interview with one of the deportees who is a University graduate and has lived
in Germany since 2016, stated that he is not bitter about the deportation because
he was given three months visitors permit to remain in the country but rather stayed
beyond that. He said he feels disappointed in himself for wasting all these three
years and have not done anything meaningful with his life.

In a related development, the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) has also
deported five (5) Ghanaians for over staying their entry permit. The Five (5) who
also arrived with a chartered flight HFY221 were under sixty three (63) escorts
including two paramedics, and one official from the High Commissioner as an
observer.

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The deportees who are aged between 26 – 60 years were working and schooling and
have lived in the UK for between (5) months and ten (10) years. Three (3) arrived
with UK Overstay Certificates issued by the British Authorities and two on Ghanaian
passports.

The regional distribution are; Ashanti two (2), Greater Accra two (2) and one from
the Bono Regions.

In all, a total of twenty two (22) deportees have been received by the KIA Regional
Command from UK and Germany.

They were admitted into the country after going through the necessary arrival
procedures including screening to authenticate their nationalities and counselling by
a Clinical Psychologist.

Present at the exercise were officials from the Ghana Immigration Service, and other
security agencies including National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO)
who facilitated the transportation of the deportees to their various destinations.

The Commander of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) Regional Command of the
Ghana Immigration Service, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration, (ACI) Edith
Penelope Arhin, advised, prospective travellers to always endeavour to travel with
the requisite documents and visas and also ensure they return within the given
period to avoid force deportation. This is because deportation can ruin one’s chance
of ever travelling to that country again.

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BARBARA SAM (ASI)

REGIONAL PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER/ KIA
0244790137