1,000 Ghanaians in Algerian jails

About 1,000 Ghanaians are being held in custody in Algeria awaiting prosecution for drug trafficking, lack of requisite papers and other offences. Mr. Wilberforce Kumi, a native of Ejuratia in Ashanti, who is among 20 Ghanaian deportees from Libya and Algeria, disclosed this on their arrival at Bawku at the weekend. The returnees, who hail from Ashanti, Eastern and Greater Accra regions, were received by officials of the National Mobilisation Programme (NMP) in the Bawku District of the Upper East Region. Mr. Kumi said they were held for four months in Tripoli, Libya and subjected to all sorts of molestation before being released to make their journey back home.