Students cautioned against illegal migration

Aworowa (B/A) Dec. 26, GNA - Mr. Alfred Mbinglo, Executive Director of Research and Counselling Foundation for African Migrants (RECFAM), has expressed worry about the manner in which irregular migrants suffer abroad due to lack of proper travelling documents.

He said most of such migrants embarked on their journeys through unapproved routes, causing some of them deaths, forced labour, drug addiction, torture, sexual abuse and other forms of maltreatment especially when caught travelling through the desert.

Mr. Mbinglo was speaking at a one-day sensitization forum for students of Akumfi Ameyaw Senior High School (SHS) at Aworowa in the Techiman Municipality at the weekend.

The workshop, under the theme, "Information Campaign Activities to Discourage Irregular Migration and Promote Legal Migration", was aimed among other things at creating awareness of the dangers involved in travelling outside Ghana without requisite o'