Trump Deports Nigerians, Others To Ghana

The United States President Donald Trump has carried retired his earlier menace to deport Nigerians, who are among the implicit 14 West Africans reportedly deported to Ghana from the US, arsenic President Donald Trump intensifies his renewed migration crackdown.

Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama disclosed this connected Wednesday, stressing that the 14 deportees, who included Nigerians and a Gambian, arrived successful Ghana earlier successful the week.

He noted that Ghana agreed with the US Government to facilitate the deportees’ onward journey, adding that his state accepted West African deportees “because each West Africans bash not request visas to travel to Ghana.”

Under the US authorities of Trump’s third-country deportation programme, the Ghanaian person said the Nigerians were sent backmost location by bus. At the aforesaid time, arrangements are being made for the Gambians’ return.

He besides noted that relations betwixt Ghana and the United States had faltered pursuing tariff hikes connected Ghanaian goods and caller visa restrictions, though ties stay broadly positive.

The Nigerian Government had vehemently opposed the  U.S. attempts to force  African nations to judge third-country migrants. It maintained that it would lone judge its citizens and not deportees from different countries.

The Trump medication has go accordant successful the deportation of  African nationals and beyond. Five radical were deported to Eswatini successful July and 8 to South Sudan.

In August,  Rwanda accepted 7 deportees aft signing a woody with Washington to person up to 250 migrants.

Panama, Sudan, and Uganda were among the countries that received deportees from the US.

Meanwhile, determination are reports that the European countries are readying akin enactment against Nigerians and different Africans, successful a widening argumentation that volition lone marque things worse for Africans, particularly Nigerians, adjacent aft a raft of visa restrictions imposed connected visa applicants to the US.

As of Thursday’s study filing, the Nigerian authorities had not yet issued an authoritative connection connected the latest development.

However, determination is precise small the Nigerian Government tin bash astir this alarming situation.