Youth in the Brong Ahafo Region remain defiant in their resolve to travel to Libya en route to European countries regardless of the recent expose on slavery and the murder of black youth from others parts of Africa.
The youth, especially, those from Nkoranza, Techiman and Berekum are still bent on travelling to overseas through Libya despite the dangers involved.
This was disclosed by the Chief Superintendent of Immigration in charge of the Migration Information Centre at Sunyani, James Hayford Boadi yesterday in an interview with the DAILY GUIDE.
He said even though the centre is trying its best to convince the youth from embarking on such dangerous trips, their response has persistently been their preference for hardship in Libya to hunger and joblessness in Ghana.
Brong Ahafo tops the other regions in terms of youth migration to Europe through the North African countries. “So far, Nkoranza, Berekum and Techiman are the leading producers of illegal immigrants most of whom have little or no knowledge about what awaits them on the way and their final destination,” he said.
There are more than 1, 500 illegal Ghanaian immigrants in Libya, he said adding that between January and October 2017 a total of 3,669 Ghanaians returned from Libya. The breakdowns are 406 Greater Accra, 536 Ashanti, 129 Central and 164 Western. The rest are 155 Volta, 151 Upper West, 224 Upper East, 298 Northern, 180 Eastern and 1,426 Brong Ahafo.
He explained that in the wake of the crisis, the government through the Ghana Immigration Service evacuated 127 Ghanaians on 29th of November 2017 into the country. 29 from Brong Ahafo, 6 from Eastern, 2 from Northern, 3 from Volta, 18 from Ashanti and 30 from Western. The rests are, 5 from Greater Accra, 23 from Central and 11 from Upper East.
He said each returnee was given GH¢ 400 to help them get to their respective homes in the country. He pleaded with the youth in the region to listen to travel advice from the centre adding that Libya is not safe. He appealed to the youth in the region to engage in farming because there are fertile lands in Brong Ahafo which are good for cash crops like cashew and cocoa.
The Migration Information Centre was set up in February, 2016 to educate youth in the region about the dangers of illegal migration and is funded by the European Union and the International Organization for Illegal Migration and the Japanese government.
Source: Daily Guide
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Please Nana Addo leave these F O O LS to go to Libya so they can see it themselves. They say a wise man learn but a ***barred word*** will never. They're lazy people that's why they're starving. They can farm and be creative. The mentality there is going to abroad to gain respect from other so literally they are living to please their family members and others. I will let them travel and be slaves in Libya. IDI OTS -
If only our people knew what goes on against illegal migrants, especially in countries reporting high numbers of such migrants Italy is overflooded with illegal migrants coming from Lybia. Many of these migrants drown in their search of greener pastures trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Lybia to Italy. The refugee camps in Italy are grappling with ever increasing numbers of illegal migrants, struggling to provide basic human needs. Moreover, all of us have seen some of the inhuman activities going on in Lybia with respect to the migrants
The government and civil society should get these pea sized brain id10ts the fastest most efficient means of transport ( an aeroplane so to speak) to dump them in Libya, let them be sold and be maltreated as bl00dy slaves and for those who survive this slavery meet their ignoble watery end in the sea. Us£l£ss people
I dont know why people like these should be counted among humans. You have seen the dangers in the trip you plan to embark on and you defiantly want to go. Dont you value your lives? If you want to travel to Europe, APPLY FOR VISA PERIOD!
do the same cleaning jobs you do in Libya,in GHANA, and you will be ok. we don't want to do these jobs in our own country. GOD help us.prefer Libya to GHANA.YOU don't know what you are talking about.
Who cares? They can hurry and go!! Of all the difficulties and atrocities that will be meted out to you? Me, I will not move an inch oo, after all home sweet home wai. But if you go and life begin to hit you hard, do not call on the government to bring you back, for you have not paid any tax during the period. We cannot waste the obedient taxpayers money on you, it is a choice that you have made. And that choice can make or unmake you.
The government even did well by given each of them GH400 in order to reach their final destination . If they still think Libya is better than Ghana then they should go and never call the government for help in times of trouble since they are not ready to listen to advice. The money used on the unsafe journey can be use for something useful in the country. Brong fo) de3 b3 nte hweee ase nti mo nk). A word to the wise............
Leave these people to go Libya and be enslaved. If all that we have seen in the media is not deterrent enough, then fair enough.
The money paid to the connection men or agents can be used to start some business in Ghana. Risking your lives carrying all that money? You see at the end of the day when the situation becomes unbearable then government is called upon to repatriate. Please think again.
Joblessness in Ghana, y3te, they should go to Lybia. Even in ur own country u couldnt make it. how much more Lybia? Let them go eh! at end of the day if they die, whose falt. ndc fo) ne sn3m fo