Over 1,300 Nigerien Beggars In Ghana Dispatched
One thousand three hundred and twenty (1,320) Nigeriens on the streets of Ghana have been rounded up and repatriated back to their home country, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has relayed.
Among the total number were three hundred adult males, four hundred adult females and six hundred and twenty children.
The Ministry said their evacuation was done with the collaboration of the Niger Embassy in Accra and the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS).
The deportees were sent home between June 7 and 8, it said.
“On Tuesday, 7th June 2022, the Consulate of Niger repatriated the first batch of five hundred and fifteen Nigeriens to Niamey- Niger around 12:40 pm by air. The rest were also emplaned to their home country in Niger around 5:30 pm on Wednesday, 8th June 2022.”.
The deportees were reportedly found and rounded up from underneath bridges, traffic lights intersections, street pavement and other places begging for alms or loitering on the streets of Accra.
The Ministry noted that this is the first phase of the measures employed to deal with the menace of streetism in Ghana.
It said it has initiated projects such as “Operation get off the street” and “street-connected project”, to get beggars off the streets.
Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini
