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Ghana’s borders are not porous – Immigration Service

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  • PRINCE 11 years ago

    wheather the Asantes/Akyems/Kwawhus like it or not, the P3p3pni is ruling them with authority. He is our president and commander-in chief of the Ghana Armed Forces.

  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    No one is opposing John Mahama. The result of the last election is what is being challenged. Now, listen. Mahama is not the first Northerner to be elected as president. Limann, who Rawlings overthrown in 1981, was a North ...
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  • AMEN 11 years ago

    GOD KNOWS WHY HE CREATED ASHANTIS UGLY

  • GBESE 11 years ago

    You can't be an Asante so your frustration; fool

  • Torgbigah 11 years ago

    Mr. Palmdetti, you disgrace yourself with the article you wrote here.. how?
    1. first all you should know by chinese activities in ghana,,that any chinese to come to ghana has no good intension therefore should register at t ...
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  • DER GBAALE 11 years ago

    Our Immigration officers are jolly jokers. Are they able to discern genuine passports/Visas from fake ones? Considering how we, genuine Ghanaian travellers are grilled at points of entries of the various countries in the deve ...
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  • kwaku 11 years ago

    www.ghanatvlive.blogspot.com

  • ABRANTIE GYASI 11 years ago

    Excellent postings and I think you should be employed as an immigration head, as you are well abreast with the immigration laws and activities.LET your ideas be taken to GOV for its consideration, as those there has no idea a ...
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  • kolo 11 years ago

    what do you mean by this statement? you can't ascertain true mind of foreigner's mission for entering ghana? damn fucking motherfucker,, will foreigner tel you the truth of his mission? even i will never tell JF kennedy secur ...
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  • GHANAian 11 years ago

    Its a pity to read this piece from a whole immigration officer. No words to describe the attitude of our Immigration officer. In all I wish our immigration officers needs a lot of good and psychological training.

  • DAN 11 years ago

    money is what is need, training means nothing if drug dealer or cocoa smuggler comes along and give $1000 to look the other way, but their money pay is $50

  • kantanka 11 years ago

    our borders are leaking like a cracked pipe, maybe bcos the big shots of the immigration services don't mingle with the masses thats why they don't see or know..we have over 3 million nigerians living in our country and you s ...
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  • KWAME-Illford,Essex-UK 11 years ago

    IT,S A BIG LIE.BORDER GUARDS ARE KNOWN TO BE SO CORRUPT THEY ALLOW IN ANYONE ONCE YOU CAN BRIBE THEM.EVEN KNOWN ARMED ROBBERS ARE ALLOWED TO CROSS LET ALONE "GALAMSEYERS". THIS REFLECTS THEIR POOR CREDIBILITY.GOVT, SHOULD NOW ...
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  • DAN 11 years ago

    even bags of Cocoa make it to Ivory coast for sell at higher price

  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    Mr. Palmdetti, your explanation about whoever is entering the country, is bogus and stupid.

    What are the Chinese here for other than engaging in all sort of small scale trading, mining etc? Do you listen to the news and w ...
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  • Laryea Ogbaami 11 years ago

    Dear Director

    It is obvious that our borders are open to illegals that are taking the country for granted, just because of some few dollars, or euros by some immigration officers. For God`s sake Please just stop this rathe ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 11 years ago

    Do you make random checks on foreigners to know whether they have overstayed or are working illegally in the country?I can assure you that most foreigners in Ghana including africans are overstayers and therefore have breache ...
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  • yen asem hwe 11 years ago

    Ogbaami, i agree with you, but you known the immigration the dont think obout what the chinesis goin to do ? no ,he think about how is pockertmoney will be fill with €€€€€ and$$$$$$ finish

  • OMANBA 11 years ago

    This guy is not serious.I worked at one of the borders in the Volta Region and we are being told that our borders are not porous.It is better we do not have approved entry points.Border officials have turned the unapproved en ...
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  • jim 11 years ago

    this is realy a shit explanation and i want to see this man face2face and ask him 1 question!!!

  • veronica eddie annan addy 11 years ago

    Hahahahaa still wondering which of the universities this guy was educated at.Ok!there is something called wisdom,education wont give you that,and thatis what this fool lack.Immigration paaa!icant believe this,is it lack of pe ...
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  • AMINA 11 years ago

    MONEY WILL CHANGE HANDS AND THE GATE WILL BE WIDE OPEN FOR ALL TO COME IN BY THESE SAME PEOPLE WE PAY TO MANAGE THE BORDERS

  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    A policemen stops a car crossing the border between Ghana and Ivory Coast.

    Driver asks : “Is anything wrong, officer?”

    Policeman says: “No, we just wanted to reward you for being the 100.000th car driving this wa ...
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  • KK SLAVE MENTALITY MUST GO 11 years ago

    HAVE EVER CROSS THE MEXICO US BORDER OR CANADA US BORDER, YOU WILL SEE HOW WELL BORDER AGENT WORKS AND HOW DELIGENTLY THEY DO THEIR WORK WITH PROFESSIONALISM NOT IN GHANA WITH CHOP CHOP CHOP, IGNORANT, GREED, SLAVE MENTALITY, ...
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  • ABRANTIE GYASI 11 years ago

    DROP this so called immigration officer at any of the Australian airports see if he could pass through controls

  • GBESE 11 years ago

    Your comments expose you as not a professional Immigration Officer. Has this guy heard of profiling and case studies? If you have people trooping into your country to commit crimes, you continue to allow them in because they ...
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  • Aaaba 11 years ago

    This is what happens when half-baked intellectuals are given undeserved positions.I thought as the old guards who were not too much educated phased out in the service,the new crop of guys were gonna come around with something ...
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  • KK SLAVE MENTALITY MUST GO 11 years ago

    BETTER TRAINED AND EQUIPED WILL HELP THESE NEW AND EXISTING GUARDS ELSE WE WILL HAVE CRIMINALS AND ILLEGALS REAPING HAVOC IN THE COUNTRY. BORDER IS JUST LIKE YOUR BELLY IF YOU ALLOW THE ANYTHING IN YOU GET SICK IN THE LONG RU ...
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  • JJ 11 years ago

    GOVERNMENT WITH GOOD DATABASE CAN LINK OUR MISSION WITH LINK DATABASE OF WHO AND WHOM VISAS ARE ISSUED TO VERIFY WHAT BACKGROUND ANDD WHEN ARRIVE WHAT THEY DO. IMMIGRATION SHOULD BE WELL EQUIPED WITH DATABASE TO TRACE THESE I ...
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  • BlackMan 11 years ago

    For that one alone, I say 'they lie bad'!!
    Pay your staff very well with fat salaries first to stop them begging for 'lunch money & tips' at all the entry & departure check points!!!
    Always asking for even the r ...
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  • JUSTICE 11 years ago

    WE SERIOUSLY NEED MILITARY PRESENCE AT ALL OUR BORDERS IN ORDER TO DETER CRIMINALS FROM ENTERING GHANA. PERSONNEL OF THE IMMIGRATION SERVICE ARE ALMOST LIKE CIVILIANS AND CAN THEREFORE NOT DETER ANY CRIMINAL. JUST BECAUSE OF ...
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  • OMANBA 11 years ago

    That will not solve the problem.They will rather like the former Border Guards use the gun to enrich themselves.It all boils down to patriotism-loving your country and protecting its resources.This is what ghanaians lack.If i ...
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  • NII LARTEY NARTEY 11 years ago

    Go tell this lies to your children and your retarded minded family with your incompetent misfit.

    Mr. Palmetti has lost his head and professional credibility for his outrageously despicable and disgusting comments here. As ...
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  • Nana Asare 11 years ago

    THE GHANA IMMIGRATION SERVICE IS NO DIFFERENT FROM THE POLICE, IT IS A CORRUPT INSTITUTION THAT THEY WILL TAKE ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY TO LET ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS INTO THE COUNTRY.

  • Jury 11 years ago

    You forgot that one too?
    Them all CORRUPT, Nana; no exception!!!

  • PAPA MORGAN U.S.A 11 years ago

    granting a visa is not a guarantee entry tell it to immigration boss. we have too many illegals in ghana.At the airport immigration officers hustle ghanaians with foreign passports than they do with foreigners

  • PAPA MORGAN U.S.A 11 years ago

    Mr Palmdetti i'll tell u this quit keeping the same officers at same entry points.Rotate immigration officers at the airport and entry points including custom officers I dont see why officers stay at one point for years

  • Chief J.J. 11 years ago

    The pro is not efficient;he has little knowledge about his job.The immigration service can deny visas at any flimsy excuse.
    The should learn America and other western countries.
    The issuance of their visas are great financi ...
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  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    The borders are more than poroys, with the connivance of greedy bastard Immigration officers who sell thir birthright for a morsel of bread. This results in illegal immigrants passing thru the bush and bribing their way thru. ...
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  • OB 11 years ago

    our borders are very porous who say they not pls cross check your facts.is only God who is protecting us.

  • Kwasi Britwum 11 years ago

    I am surprised and disappointed at the immigration boss`s reason for allowing these Chinese people into our country in their numbers. He should know that one chinese city`s population may be equal to the total population of G ...
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  • mq 11 years ago

    if we dont take care, very soon gh will become second china. if the immigration officer has been able to explain why, then what are their immediate actions towards what he said. they should be smart because you cant be in you ...
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  • Adama d'Gharty, UK 11 years ago

    How does anybody account for the state of unusal influx of the illegal Chinese men, women and children into Ghana? And yet these Chinese are not the only illegal entities that enter Ghanaian cross borders without proper entry ...
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  • Hazor 11 years ago

    Ghana Immigration service claim Ghana borders are not porius.Then Ghana Immigration service must explain to Ghanaians why Cocaine,wee and 1.5tons of Gold pass through immigration at our airport without detect them and 60 cont ...
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  • sarpong k.k Adu 11 years ago

    why many people hate the ashanti's?we are very popular n wise and the ntafo) always serves us.