Ghanaian government after agreement with Donald Trump government has received some Nigerians and other West African citizens deported from the U.S.
President John Mahama said in a news conference on Wednesday that 14 U.S. deportees, including Nigerians and Gambians arrived Ghana following a bilateral agreement with the US.
Among the 14 people already deported to Ghana are “several” Nigerians and a Gambian, Mr Mahama said, adding that “All our fellow West African nationals don’t need visas to come to our country.”
“We were approached by the US to accept third-party nationals who were being removed from the US. And we agreed with them that West African nationals were acceptable,” Mr Mahama said.
He said that they would return deported Nigerians to their country by bus.
Mr Trump’s administration has recently clamped down on illegal migrants since his second return to the White House in January.
Ghana, Rwanda and Uganda are now part of African countries that have agreed to accept U.S. deportees since the U.S. government made the offer to leaders of African countries
