A Ghanaian migrant who was facing deportation from Malta took his own life on Saturday after he was forced to "feel like a criminal" by a new immigration policy in that country.
The Times of Malta reports that, Frederick Ofosu, 33, was found strangled with an electric cable in a Qawra building site on Saturday night.
He left a recorded message for friends explaining his despair, saying he was being forced to feel like a criminal when he had done no wrong, according to Ahmed Bugri, director for the Foundation for Shelter and Support for Migrants.
Dr Bugri who identified the victim together with a Ghanaian embassy official, said the government's decision to review the so-called THPn system had forced him to the edge.
However, the Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela said the victim had applied for assisted voluntary return scheme to return to Ghana last September.
His return process could not be concluded because there were other pending court cases.
Mr Abela said that in 2013 and 2014 the victim had applied for the so-called Temporary Humanitarian Protection-New (THPn) status but the Refugee Commissioner had turned it down.
There are an estimated 1,200 migrants who fall under THPnto failed asylum seekers.
Source: graphic.com.gh
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This is ***barred word***.Every country has its own laws.In the first place why do you have to be in someone's country illegally?You just leave if you can't abide by the laws and would have been better than killing yourself.
When foreigners come here we pamper them....i went to china and I couldn't believe how these yellow midgets treated me on a bus....as if I was some ape from space
RIP bro! But guys, if your visa is about to expire, just leave, with life there is chance, I know situations are different but lets take death out of the options. DEATH MUST NOT BE AN OPTION!!
Who and what sent you there. Fast track to riches.
it is about time the Ghanaian government takes action on this kind of treatments Ghanaian immigrants go through accross Asia . It is worse in China . When you are arrested for over stayed Visa in China , you are made to pay a penalty of 7,000 to 10,000 Yuan, after which the victim must by his one way air tickect back home in default several months in detention centres under inhuman conditions . It is terrible . Ministry of foreign affairs must take this up seriously . Ghanaians die in Asia especially China like animals and their bodies disposed off like animals . There living Ghanains when can attest to this . May his soul rest in Peace .