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Ghanaian woman arrested on her wedding day in UK

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  • AGBESI KWESI 7 years ago

    Most of the ghost names on Ghana's Payroll belong to Cadres. During the reign of Atta Mills the Cadres were all over the place making noise that the good old Prof has neglected them. Immediately after the death of Atta Mills ...
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  • j0eY l0nD0n 7 years ago

    It's unfortunate sister but why can't you guys do some listening for once? Electra house has changed don't be fool by middle men go through the right channels.

  • j0eY l0nD0n 7 years ago

    Don't be fooled by so called middle men!

  • Voice of the Voiceless 7 years ago

    You have done nothing wrong for-soever.
    I pray that the good Lord protect you while in prison and beyond. Hopefully you will be released after 2 months and if they should deport you kruaaa you are a winner and they are the ...
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  • Grace 7 years ago

    "She allegedly bought some dubious documents from a man who claimed to work for the Home Office after the department refused to extend her leave to remain in 2013."

    The home Office department refused to extend her leave to ...
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  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 7 years ago

    if she had not bought the fake documents and married her German fiance,her chances of being a legal citizen would have been easier.
    she could just move to Germany.

  • KANAWU 7 years ago

    The marriage did not take place. Was interrupted by UK Immigration authorities. If her German fiance loves her, i.e. the relationship is real, then they can still have a genuine marriage, if she can get out on some kind of ba ...
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  • JOE,LONDON 7 years ago

    Is it only Ghanaians who are corrupt?The whiteman is also corrupt.Corruption in the UK Public Service alone averages 24 million a year.Some UK members of parliament have also been jailed for corruption.What do you say?

  • RICARDO 7 years ago

    People like you still behave like when you were living at your small village in Ghana. Could you support your statement with a proof or where is the evidence! Stop talking shit.

  • joe,london 7 years ago

    No wonder you eat the whiteman's shit.So you naively believe that there is no corruption among whites?Come down to London to check on how many MPS have been jailed for corruption and you will be amazed.You are a big fool.

  • KOKU AMAGAFIO 7 years ago

    Stop talking shit yourself joe, london. Corruption does of course exist in Britain and elsewhere in Europe. But it is essentially in very high circles and NO simple servant will get a bribe from you before processing a passpo ...
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  • Col Q 7 years ago

    Madame, how long have you lived in the western world?? Here in the western world, everything is possible, bribery and dubious documents all inclusive! It all depends on how and who and also LUCK! I'm not propagating crime or ...
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  • KANAWU 7 years ago

    It's sickening. An educated Ghanaian trying to extend her stay through the same old, sick Ghanaian tendency to bribe or acquire legal papers through foul means. Ridiculous. This is what's destroying the country - bribe, bribe ...
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  • Yaw 7 years ago

    Electric house has changed not change.

  • jOEy LoNdOn 7 years ago

    What was your point Mr multiplex? You will follow me till Dawn. Oyen sormi!

  • KWAME-BELGIUM 7 years ago

    Agbesi Kwesi, Agbesi, do you please the news article very well before coughing? What has your comments doing with this news?

  • JONA 7 years ago

    WHERE DID YOU SCHOOL, KWAME BELGIUM? WHO WERE YOUR TEACHERS.

  • Col Q 7 years ago

    My friend hurry up, we shall not wait too long for "your" facts or evidence! Should it turn out that you are fooling us just like Rawlings did with Yaa Na's killing, you would be traced and brought to book!We are fed up with ...
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  • AGBESI KWESI 7 years ago

    These are all latent facts that are yet to explode.

  • Ben 7 years ago

    Immigration offense is not a crime. Free the lady and take your country. I wonder if Ghana would incarcerate british for violating immigration laws.

  • HONESTY 7 years ago

    That is how they want it and that is how everyone succeeds.
    What has she done wrong. If the Home Office is truly clean, they must send the Albanians home and Indians home.

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 7 years ago

    Many foreigners worked with fake names until they became permanent residents in America or the Western world through amnesty or marriage.
    At the moment there are many illegals in the system.
    Many brilliant Ghanaian's could ...
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  • HONESTY 7 years ago

    India, China, etc,etc seek good travelling conditions for their nationals but poor Africa thinks, her people should stay at home for joblessness.
    The few that succeed become so selfish it is unbelievable.
    Like you said, m ...
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  • j0eY l0nD0n 7 years ago

    I don't like you for that behaviour , But I don't hate you either, and it's a case of an intelligent comment coming from your end. My daddy always told me how certain individuals in the then Gold-coast wanted to be known as ...
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  • Ignored Black American, as usual 7 years ago

    "Joblessness" you say. It is local Ghanaians fault as well as the GH-Americans, in my eyes.

    With the internet, networking globally and relatives and friends living abroad...it is no reason local Ghanaians should be suffer ...
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  • j0eY l0nD0n 7 years ago

    However her case,is much more than a worsened situation due to the charges and admittance of her purchasing falsified documents. I am really sad for HER . Technically she can still make it If the fiancé can fight for her ...
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  • Fo Koku - Tanyigbe 7 years ago

    SORRY BUT THESE LOUD NPP ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

  • j0eY l0nD0n 7 years ago

    People are coughing over 5 grands for wedding dresses not to talk about party organiser's fee.

  • Fo Koku - Tanyigbe 7 years ago

    FOLLOW THE NPP AND THEIR NOISE MAKERS AND YOU GET BUSTED BY THE BRITTISH IMMIGRATION.

  • Kotokoba 7 years ago

    What shows that she's an NPP supporter?

  • Atoapoma 7 years ago

    Because of her name she is NPP, right? I guess Asiedu Nketiah, Yaw Boating Gyan, Totobi Kwakye among others are all NPP. Ethnocentrism betrays common sense.

  • No nonsense 7 years ago

    That is a sensible and matured advise to
    my sister, than that stupid senseless guy who said is not a crime, do you know the law more than the immigration officials? .

  • .......p 7 years ago

    Hi dude immigration offence is not crime only in primitive Ghana if you cannot control immigration what you get is criminals just like you who think every Tom and dick can roam any where in the world uk is not as corrupt as ...
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  • Kofi Kumi. 7 years ago

    It is a criminal offence in the UK for your information.

  • No nonsense 7 years ago

    Thank you my brother educate that fool who think he's a smart guy,
    Not only in UK but in the U.S.A as well and even not in this countries alone, every country has their immigration law and you have to obey the law.

  • Shane 7 years ago

    Yes they would and they have done for incorrect work permits

  • Ama 7 years ago

    Stupid fool! Do you think one should break immigration laws??? Not in Britain please because they are trying to abide the system which is wrong!

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  • Chicken 7 years ago

    Gerrout of here with your nonsense.

  • JONA 7 years ago

    CHECK YOUR LIFE AND SEE IF THIS YOUR SO CALLED POWER IS HELPING YOU. WHY NOT OPEN YOUR CHURCH? STOP THIS NONSENSE. WE NEED BETTER THINGS TO READ AND NOT GARBAGE.

  • Akans Prophecies 7 years ago

    FUCK OFF WITH YOUR IMMIGRATION NONSENSE ! THE ANGLES AND THE SAXONS FROM DENMARK HAD NEVER HAD A HOME UNTIL THEY RAIDED WHAT IS NOW ENGLAND !

  • KWAME-BELGIUM 7 years ago

    This is very common and it happens even in Ghana daily.

  • Joyce 7 years ago

    Absolutely No crime has been committed. Thousands of migrants in the UK are in similar situation and are still doing so because of the ill-treatment of migrants, especially those from Africa, by the home office.
    In a migrant ...
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  • No nonsense 7 years ago

    I want you to understand that stealing is not a crime but when you are caught and confuse them the law would deal with you accordingly

  • teneboah kodua 7 years ago

    She should have claimed CLEMENCY if she was related to MR. SIAW OF TATA BREWERY

  • BJ 7 years ago

    Ghanaweb should be giving us educative and PROPER News instead of such STUPID unfounded and irrelevant news.
    To almost all migrants, including Ghanaian, living in the UK this is nothing to discuss. The UK government make it ...
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  • Voice of the Voiceless 7 years ago

    We need news that will aid our development.
    This one is below the belt (Bokum Banku)

  • Jon 7 years ago

    She might have been hiding from the immigration to make sure she legally get married to her fiance and proceed from there so to speak. How did the immigration find her whereabouts and swoop on her?

  • ============= 7 years ago

    JON, FOR YOUR INFORMATION, THE HOME OFFICE WORK HAND IN HAND WITH A LOT OF AGENCIES THESE DAYS. IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE REGISTRAR WHERE THEY WERE GOING TO GET MARRIED WHO BECAME SUSPICIOUS OF THE COUPLE AND GRASSED ON THEM OR ...
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  • HONESTY 7 years ago

    I wish our people create a skirt and blouse in November to force any govt to play it hard with the multinational companies especially from Britain.
    They can not mistreat us on their land while busy shipping away our resourc ...
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  • Koto 7 years ago

    These companies have nothing to lose.At worse they can fold up and go but who will suffer at the end.It is Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana.Don't you see our leaders always nodding up their heads like agama crying for investors.

  • HONESTY 7 years ago

    For every job these companies create, they create a thousand more back home.
    They are only using our resources, jobs, market etc.
    It is not worth it. Let them go to Ivory Coast and use their resources and at least in time, ...
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  • LEAVE THE COMMONWEALTH 7 years ago

    Well said Honesty, the problem is we allow them to reap and deplete our resources and we come to their county to slave for them and above all they mistreat us in the name of immigration control yet we even harbour their drug ...
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  • LEAVE THE COMMONWEALTH 7 years ago

    British Home Office, you are stupid and racist. I am writing as a Ghanaian who have lived in the UK for 13 years and a Lecturer. Some of your case workers did not even get a C in English GCSE; that explains why some of you m ...
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  • Obroni 7 years ago

    In hardly any other EU country this woman could have applied for a wedding without proper documentation that's the reason UK is full of unwanted foreigners and not because the EU is not checking. And thats why they voted to g ...
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  • KOOBOY 7 years ago

    AMOATENG AN EX-MP AND DRUG SMUGGLER TRAVELLED WITH FORGED OR FAKE DOCUMENTS AFTER SERVING 10 YEARS IN USA PRISON AND WAS LET GO FREE BY OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM.

  • Prince Johnson - Berlin 7 years ago

    You are STUPID. Have you heard his side of the case? In anyway, does he worked at the passport office? Think and stop your STUPIDITY

  • Ali 7 years ago

    I DON'T BLAME HER. IF OUR LEADERS THINK ABOUT THE INTEREST OF OUR ECONOMY TO CREATE MORE JOBS, INCREASE SALARIES, ETC. MOST PEOPLE WILL NOT TRAVEL.
    WHY SHOULD ONE TRAVEL TO DO CLEANING IN ANOTHER COUNTRY WHILES THE GOVERNMEN ...
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  • 1 Loaf 7 years ago

    Naaa l disagree with you. Certain ethnic groups just love the Whiteman country. They are prepared to go the and wash dishes, bake bread, baby sit or even work as undertakers so as to be recognized as a been-to

  • Joyce 7 years ago

    I don't blame her. She hadn't commited any crime. Its not easy to live on someone else land. Most Ghanaians in abroad are going through the same problem. The white man should understand that fact and marry her at home. She is ...
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  • James Adams Ho 7 years ago

    Dear sister allot has passed through it you were NOT lucky allot are there using others papers to work some taking wrong marriages some paid $35,000 other £24,000 before they got papers such is the world we are passing throu ...
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  • Kwesi Ampaw 7 years ago

    You deserve to live in your own country called Ghana and stop abusing other peoples country.

  • KWAME 7 years ago

    THIS GHANAWEB EDITORS I DONT KNOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM.THEY JUST PUBLISH ANYTHING THIS COULD BE A LIE DONT BELIEVE ALL THEIR STORIES,

  • ============= 7 years ago

    KWAME, THIS IS NOT A LIE. IT IS IN THE MAJOR PAPERS HERE IN BRITAIN. I READ THIS STORY IN ONE OF THEM THIS MORNING ON MY WAY TO WORK.THE SAD THING IS NOT ONLY HAS THE WOMAN WASTED HER MONEY, BUT SHE WILL BE DEPORTED BACK TO G ...
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  • Yaw Amofa 7 years ago

    You cannot come back from UK to beat any hardworking Ghanaian. We even pity you when uou arrive here on holidays. Your palms are so calloused and your dressing colo. Thats why most Ghanaian men after their first holiday in Gh ...
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  • KOFI,LONDON 7 years ago

    Do you want her to come and live in a 'dumsor'country with rudimentary medical care for its citizens?Do you want her to come back to live in a country where there are no gutters and when it rains there is flood everywhere?Do ...
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  • joe,london 7 years ago

    Better to wash plates and get three square meals a day than to live in Ghana and not be able to get money to buy paracetamol when i am sick.Millions of Ghanaians want to come to the UK to wash plates and get pounds sterling.Y ...
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  • TUNDE 7 years ago

    HAHAHAHAH SEE GHANA FACE.
    UGLY PASS KENKEY

  • Freak 7 years ago

    Are you enjoying the demise of Ghanians? Slats man!

  • andy 7 years ago

    Big fool,evening though we re poor we dont eat from country's coffers neh.

  • Abu Hamza,former Palestinian. 7 years ago

    Dirty pig,one of your people was killed yesterday by firing squard in Indonisia for drug related case.

  • Alfred Mark Adade 7 years ago

    Years ago our people stayed home even in our towns they were okay working there.In 1974 passport forms were sold at twenty pesewas at post offices.Ghanaian did NOT travel since we have what we need here we just travel outside ...
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  • OBSERVERS WITHOUT BORDERS 7 years ago

    WELL SAID AND A VEY GOOD COMMENT

  • HONESTY 7 years ago

    We must do all we can to get our leaders to seek the well being of Ghanaians.

  • LEAVE THE COMMONWEALTH 7 years ago

    Honesty I totally agree with you. I hate revolutions but our democracy seem to benefit the west and their greed. Our own people are not benefitting from it. This lady is a qualified teacher and had studied for masters degree. ...
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  • SWAY 7 years ago

    If u could take Obasanjo as a president, what do u think she will be in Nigeria,anyway your corruption is endorsed.------carcas is not afraid of knife

  • K Man 7 years ago

    People are perhaps not fully understanding the issue surrounding this lady. I agree she is in a difficult position concerning her immigration status, but the issue is that she obtained and used false documentation (irrespecti ...
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  • DR TRUTH 7 years ago

    DIDNT SHE WORK AND PAY TAXES WITH HER 'NKONTOMERE' PAPERS? JAILING HER MIGHT BE POLITICALLY CORRECT BUT ETHICALLY AND HUMANELY WRONG. WHY DO I SAY SO? SHE DIDNT ROB ANYONE AND IF SHE WAS FROM A WAR TORN COUNTRY SHE WOULD HAVE ...
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  • ghanani 7 years ago

    shame

  • Mr Bond 7 years ago

    And killers got 4 months imprisonment what a shame and it is true that NDC members are above the law.

  • ja, canada 7 years ago

    Life is not easy. Just unfortunate though the law must be up-held. Stay strong. If it were good back home all these would not happen.

  • NAA 7 years ago

    I DON'T THINK SHE IS A GHANAIAN...GHANAIANS LADIES ARE NOT UGLY LIKE THIS,IDIOTS SHE IS A BURUDIAN

  • Scooby 7 years ago

    This is not necessary at this time.

  • kwame 7 years ago

    Naa, what do you mean she is not a ghanaian? Are you pretty than her. Next time,you must think before you talk.

  • Ben 7 years ago

    Have ever travelled outside the country? Put yourself in her shoes just for day and your makeup will reveal your ugliness.

  • Uncle Kasa 7 years ago

    Ben, immigration offence is a crime definable by constitutions of most developed countries like the USA, Britain, Canada, and most European countries. This woman, although she is one of us, has proved herself to be a non bona ...
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  • Keli Goldyn 7 years ago

    People can accuse this lady of committing immigration crime but at least she is not a terrorist.She should come back home. The UK immigration system is just senseless. This kind of thing will not happen in Canada/US. No wonde ...
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  • Maame Grace 7 years ago

    Mugabe will be next. He should not dream of coming to the UK again.

  • Ankobra 7 years ago

    My God. Authority. Did you people extend her visa before jailing her.

  • Ramson 7 years ago

    What a big shame after having forgotten where you came from and want to remained where you are forever.

  • Uncle Kasa 7 years ago

    Keli, did you say this thing will not happen in Canada or the US? Please believe me, they do have detention centers or jails where they keep illegals, whether they have overstayed their visa, or are criminals. It is a little ...
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  • John 7 years ago

    This day and age a black man or woman still pays their way into slavery. Deporting her home will be best for her and and a lession to all of us that HOME SWEET HOME. The better minds of Ghana had travel out and helping to bu ...
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  • Awal 7 years ago

    What was her legal entry in to the UK and how long was the stay, was she honest on that?, do you doubt she wasn't a marriage lady in Ghana before her entry into the UK?
    Ghanaian men and women had ever than double identity to ...
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  • Kayooyo Germany 7 years ago

    Is very pity how every Ghanaian is working hard contributing for development in Ghana and our leaders misusing our money spending them hiding them in foreign banks is really heart broken and they don't care because they are ...
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  • Kayooyo Germany 7 years ago

    All the leaders spending Ghana money senseless will die of sickness

  • IDI AMIN DADA!!!! 7 years ago

    OMG, OVER 90% OF GHANAIANS IN THE UK ENTERED AND OVERSTATED THEIR WELCOME BEFORE GETTING PAPERS AND THIS WOMAN IS NO DIFFERENT. I KNOW CECILIA SIAW VERY WELL AND I WAS SHOCKED TO SEE HER IN GHANA WEB NEWS!!!!! SHE IS A HARD W ...
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  • LEAVE THE COMMONWEALTH 7 years ago

    Well said Dr Truth. I wish Ghana will quit the Commonwealth like The Gambia. Even Africans who are legal are being treated like criminals. I know a Ghanaian lady who was told to report to the police even though she had a vali ...
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  • LEAVE THE COMMONWEALTH 7 years ago

    Let's start deporting all white British Nationals in Ghana including those CEOs of the multinational companies. Communism where are you? I miss you. Nationalisation where are you? I miss you? Kwame Nkrumah where are you? The ...
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  • naa 7 years ago

    Are you serious?is this news?

  • Ohehekesee 7 years ago

    Sorry for this woman. She is not a criminal. She is just struggling to make ends meet. I hope British immigration do not send her back to Ghana. An unfortunate incident.

  • kwahuman scholars association 7 years ago

    if the lady has not killed but has rather been deceived to obtain a false document,then the one who gave the false documents should be rather arrested...i now see why Britain existed from European union ...UK is selfish and o ...
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  • koffi parker 7 years ago

    this is no news she is hustling to legalize her stay can you see it, some of us gone worst than this. no crime is committed

  • Natty Bongo 7 years ago

    Uncle Ben, immigration offence is a crime if you don't know. Even in Ghana as as ECOWAS national you when entering Ghana with a valid passport, you are given maximum of 90 days to stay in Ghana on expiration and one wish to s ...
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  • KOFI MANU-BOAFO (LONDON) 7 years ago

    I ask, overstaying and ISIS barbaric killings of human beings which is most offence. Britain should not treat Ghanaian this way for milking the country some years ago.

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