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Immigration cries for border fencing

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  • JAMREAH 10 years ago

    THIS IS VERY TRUE AND NEED URGENT ATTENTION.THEY NEED MORE MEN,MORE LOGISTICS AND MORE POWERS TO DEAL WITH THE ILLIGAL IMMIGRANTS.OUR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SECURITY SHOULD NOT BE COMPROMISED.FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF ISRAEL SECUR ...
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  • You were Not there, I was not-Pinkshe 10 years ago

    Younwant to travel outside and earn the dollar? is that not it immigration officers. Please stay put because even if you earn dollars abroad you cannot get dollars back in Ghana so be content with your Ghana Cedi hefty salari ...
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  • ROMANO 10 years ago

    TO PREVENT NEMESIS AND HIS 419 NIGERIAN THIEVES FROM FLOODING GHANA.

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    WHY HAVE YOU WAITED UNTIL NOW? LAZINESS?....ILLEGALS, SMUGGLING HAVE BEEN GETTING INTO GH WAY BEFORE THE OIL FIND. MAHAMA, RELEASE SOME OF THE 16BILLION FOR THIS PROJECT.

  • Tiger Lion 10 years ago

    These lazy and scumbag Nigerians want easy money for their boozing, parties and insatiable appetite for fucking behavior. They are all over the world stealing. They have come in their numbers in Ghana to destroy Ghana's peace ...
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  • asante 10 years ago

    Send the the Naija people back.They have spoilt Ghana.Other Africans are not too badbbb like these criminals.In guinea and sierraleone they surround them and beat them up bcos of criminal things.In kenya they are deported.The ...
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  • Tiger Lion 10 years ago

    Good day.

    This is a short true note about your unpaid fund so you need to relax and read very well to your best understanding.



    My name is Stephanie Albert. I am a computer scientist working with Central Bank of N ...
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  • Akwetey 10 years ago

    Dr Robert Lawrence
    To Recipients



    Today at 4:58 PM



    How are you and your family doing ? Hope you have not forgotten me? I am Dr Robert Lawrence the man from Nigeria who contacted you some time ago to ass ...
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  • consider 10 years ago

    i live abroad.consult me and i will advice you on visa issues.Not only visas.. who and where does the invitation come from? Immigration office MUST be the only body to issue invitation to any foreigner planning to enter ghana ...
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  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    You believe them, right? They are corrupt. They have quotas in issuing passports, go to their offices and have an eyeful of the pandemonium that brews there.

  • Kpenyigba Kwesi 10 years ago

    The Immigration Service CANNOT issue Invitation Letters, they can only visaed these letters, after checking the authenticity of the invitees'reputation and creditworthiness.

  • consider 10 years ago

    as it is done in china,only immigration processes all invites and grant the visas. all individuals must go to submit their applications to invite, to immigration service and immigration service will check their credibilities ...
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  • ObjectiveMan 10 years ago

    Funny we don't need that. The bribe will be taken and people allowed in. We rather need to be serious with the basics

  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    You get it!

    Besides, what has visa issuing in Australia, Germany or the UK got to do with border control far away in Ghana?
    He wants fences on borders around Ghana and wants immigration officers in Embassies in the West ...
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  • ato 10 years ago

    Dear country people,this ,visa ,story , ,is ,fake,no one shd go there,they have done it to.They will disappear with ur money.

  • BIN LARDIN 10 years ago

    What is the reason for that? Ghana too? HAhAHA! Please not yet for that. They think of something else or double their work. What effect does it bring to Ghana if we still do not know how corrupt our politicians are and affect ...
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  • JUJUMAN 10 years ago

    LETS RE-INTRODUCE THE BORDER GUARD SYSTEM

  • set ofori kwakuvi 10 years ago

    immigration officer issuing visas to travellers sorry government should not make any mistake to listing to socalled Mr. Palmdeti go to their office and see how they are follow passport connection immigration officers like mon ...
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  • Kpenyigba Kwesi 10 years ago

    Border fencing should be encouraged and manage properly by the Immigration Officials. It is also important that Invitation letters must be visaed by the Immigration Authorities in Ghana, after checking the authenticity of the ...
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  • Ada Boy 10 years ago

    Do you think our government is concerned about this? Ghana does not have a tangible border protection,immigration or population policy. Ghana does not even know how many children are born yearly in that country and does not k ...
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  • Ada Boy 10 years ago

    Do we think our government is overly concerned about this? Ghana does not have a tangible border protection,immigration or population policies. Ghana does not even know how many children are born yearly in that country,and do ...
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  • Kofi kwame 10 years ago

    Gets each of of Every Single GHANIAN with proper ID card including the dead and unborn Ghanian,equip the unemployed Youth ,give them the job to check suspected Alian including white skin ,their stay in Ghana,that means Ghana ...
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  • set ofori kwakuvi 10 years ago

    Immigration to issuing visas Eiiii they will sink the country ooooh let them be where they are now no further comment

  • wood 10 years ago

    when will the police be fair

  • thompson K. 10 years ago

    This "fencing" idea is a backward, Apartheid-like, Zionist mentality. Come up with something more sensible. In this global open-village where people are encouraged to run open borders but with sophisticated ideas and program ...
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  • Che 10 years ago

    Sorry, my brother, you are not informed. Go to the boarder between USA and Mexico and you fine fences. Between Isreal and Palestine has been walled.

  • kk 10 years ago

    USA has a lot of good things for the world to learn, and a lot of bad things for the world not to learn and practice as well. Unfortunately, boarder fencing is one of the US bad policies that every country should desist. You ...
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  • TRUE GHANAIAN 10 years ago

    Ok,what about those many illegal foreigners already in the country?many from backward Islamic areas like Northern Nigeria,Mali,Niger,Borkina Fasso and Northern Togo have infested areas like Nima{NIIMAN},Madina,Fadama,Kasoa,A ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    of course its fenced and cars/trucks must enter there or sneak thru desert openings

  • jm 10 years ago

    WHAT A NAIVE IDEA. EVERY GHANAIAN EXCEPT THE POLITICIANS WHO ARE MILKING THE ECONOMY WANTS TO RUN AWAY TO OTHER COUNTRIES FOR BETTER LIFE, SO WHAT KIND OF ILLIGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE COMING IN EXCEPT THOSE MORE DESPERATE THAN YOU. ...
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  • Amos Obi Nipa 10 years ago

    This is one great piece of positive news for a change. Hopefully this will not be the end of the issue raised. Provide Govt with workable policies to deal with weaknesses in the immigration sector of the economy. Ghanaians a ...
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  • Alewa 10 years ago

    Foolish man talk. Even when these boarders are constructed, you guys will still take bribes and filter the thieves through security to enter.

  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    Ha haa haaa, you don't have water to drink in your Capital and you're talking of border Fencing !!!
    Don't make me laugh self!!

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A Ghanaian Border Immigration Agent catches an illegal alien in the bushes right by the border fence, he pulls him out and says "Sorry, you know the law, you've got to go back across the border right now."

    The Ivorian man ...
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  • tahiru fulani 10 years ago

    tweaaaa they will be fencing us in the heat more than fencing them out,usualy 50gh will break the fence,tweeee..
    bam.

  • Titugri 10 years ago

    For those who do not know there was a time before Rawlings so-called revolution 1979 that Ghana had what was known then as THE BORDER GUARDS. These were arms guards in uniform similar to the Ghana Armed Forces,and their duty ...
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  • JustWantToBE 10 years ago

    I hear on the airways Ghanaian's economy is worse than any other,the leadership are illiterate and ignorant etc. etc....tell me which Ghana are you referring to, that immigrants want to come to are flocking to? I have been th ...
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  • concern ghanaian 10 years ago

    Go to Aflao border see how many people enter a day without papers

  • Asoreba 10 years ago

    Who are we kidding? We make great efforts to COVER UP the mess we are in here in Ghana with STUPID statements like these. Where are the "greener pastures" in Ghana? Thousands of young people with no jobs, millions of famil ...
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  • oyinasky 10 years ago

    Really? Really Ghana needs a border fence? For what if I may ask?

  • BabaMusa 10 years ago

    I suggest we lease the country!!# as we are not patriotic to mother Ghana or should I say GOLD COAST

  • OSEI 10 years ago

    NO I.D. CARDS. NO DATABASE OF THE SO-CALLED 26 MILLION GHANAIANS. I PITY THE STATISTICS DEPARTMENT OF POPULATION AND CENSUS. I REALLY DON'T KNOW HOW THEY ARE ABLE TO FIND THE POPULATION OF GHANAIANS IN THIS MODERN AGE OF TECH ...
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  • KELEVE KORMI 10 years ago

    very sad for an officer like you to be in colonial mentality. when we are praying for an eventual borderless west african communities, all you are thinking of is walling the borders, obviously for your selfish interests. when ...
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  • KING OF KING 10 years ago

    Ghana we need to have ID card to different shade the citizen and the immigrante befor we take care of our selves by illegale immigrante

  • atta 10 years ago

    Well said and hope the Government takes charge instead of wasting three morning when the funeral was already performed in the U.K

  • May 10 years ago

    In the '60s Ghana Border Guards patrolled the borders with Police dogs. What happened to Okponglo? The then commander of Border Guards (R.Y.)set up a police dog training center where the dogs patrol Kotoka Airports and the bo ...
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  • TRUE GHANAIAN 10 years ago

    WE ARE TOO WEAK,IMMIGRATION AND THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD ACT,AH.DO THEY NEED SOMEBODY TO TELL THEM THAT THE PEOPLE IN NIMA ETC ARE ALL ILLEGAL FOREIGNERS?WHAT MAKES THEM GHANAIANS,WHICH TOWNS/REGIONS DO THEY COME FROM AND WHAT I ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Border fencing for what? They will still continue the usual three (3) cedis [now increased to four (4) cedis] at Sogakope Immigration check point

  • Koo Nimo 10 years ago

    Ghana also talking about illigal immigrants. What is there to write home about

  • Ekow. C 10 years ago

    Ghana immigration are corrupt

  • DAN 10 years ago

    and immigrant visa's thru immigration

  • ghanaba 10 years ago

    officer, you look smart in your outfit like your big brother elegant atenga. where were you trained to ask for national walls. even the keta sea defence which is real is in limbo. immigration is divine and most of us who are ...
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  • Johnny USA 10 years ago

    AS IF THEY ARE NOT PART OF THE BORDER POINTS CORRUPTION.

  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    Mr.Palmdeti is saying here that it is only the immigration officer that should be issuing visas to immigrants/travellers,but that is not the situation in the GHANA EMBASSIES, THE WORLD OVER.
    Visa issuance could be wrong,he s ...
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  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    I support erection of fence at the border posts.
    THAT'S A GOOD IDEA FOR UTMOST PROTECTION SAKE.
    If AFRICA still has borders all over the place,separating each country from another,then we should also find a means to protect ...
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  • Ametsitsi 10 years ago

    Just go to opera square and you will see Chinese men openly selling fishing nets. How did they enter this country?