The Seme Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has disclosed that 16 Nigerians have been deported from Ghana for allegedly committing cyber crimes. The Seme Border Command Comptroller, Dr. Chukwuemeka Dike, who received the returnees with immigration officers, confirmed that the deportees were arrested at their residences during a raid by the operatives attached to Ghana Economic and Financial Crimes. According to him, the deportees claimed that they were deceived or intentionally went out of the country in search of greener pastures.
It was reported that the 16 deportees are men, with ages ranging from 19 to 24. Dr. Dike noted that, from preliminary investigation, it was discovered that some of the deportees were lured into such criminal activities while some migrated there with the belief of acquiring quick wealth borne in the mind of the youth nowadays. Additionally, further investigation has also revealed that they left the country through illegal routes, through the sea, and went into some west African countries.
Travelers should secure verifiable travel documents.
Majority of those who were deported were discovered to be in violation of travelling without valid and verified travel documents, which presented the government of Ghana with the unavoidable choice of promptly deporting them back to Nigeria. Due to the agency’s collaboration and synergy with other embassies and high commissions throughout the West African community, the deportees were turned over to the Nigerian Immigration Service. This was done in consideration of the fact that the agency had built these relationships.
Comptroller, however, encouraged Nigerians planning to travel out of the country to secure a verifiable travel document as well as have a legit source of income to avoid being deported and at the same time tarnishing Nigeria’s image in a foreign land. He stressed that Nigerians could get the minimal verifiable travel document like the ECOWAS Travel Certificate (ETC), a treaty which can guarantee free movement and good allowing access to travel across sub-region borders from the shores of Nigeria to other countries.
More Nigerians are reported to be repatriated.
Furtherly, he lamented young Nigerians’ illegal acts of getting involved in criminal activities when they were supposed to be building their talents for their future. Dr. Dike said that those who are found guilty and identified as victims will be handed over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), while those who were only incriminated in the process will also be judged accordingly. He also assured that those who have already been repatriated will be released after the conclusion of the NIS must have concluded its investigation.
The government of Ghana has alerted the Seme Command of NIS that more Nigerians will be repatriated shortly. In 2019, 723 Nigerians were deported from Ghana based on claims of cybercrime, prostitution, and unlawful stay. Also 159 deportees from Libya were received by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Currently, Nigerian nationals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are facing forced expulsion from the country. The Federal Government has advised those who illegally travelled to the state to stay calm and not make the situation worse.
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Despite several warnings by the Federal Government of Nigeria through its relevant agencies on the consequences of illegal migration to the UAE and other countries, it is regrettable that some Nigerians still find themselves as victims of this irregular act. In line with its citizens’ diplomacy, the Federal Government approved the evacuation of over 300 Nigerians stranded in the UAE. Regrettably, many of those affected have not been totally cooperative as they refused to follow the laid down procedures.
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This is the outcome when you don’t have what it takes to travel out legally. Some people are just gullible. You have to be financially okay before making that kind of decision cause its not as if they are sharing money in those foreign lands.
According to information provided by the Seme Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), a total of sixteen Nigerian nationals have been removed from the country of Ghana for alleged involvement in cybercrime.
Further inquiry has found that these individuals departed the nation illegally, by water, and made their way into a number of countries in west Africa.
You can imagine the ridicule Nigerans been repatriated from ghana because of prostitution,frauds, illegal documents, ghananians that were been sent away from Nigeria then that we cined the word ghana must go.
Travel illegally is a risk of life many thing can happen to them in their journey since they are traveling illegally. Now some people are deported from Ghana because they are involved in cyber crime our people need to chill and move legal from one place to another
Either being deported from our neigbouring countries or international countries, every Nigeriafound culpable of cyber crime deserves to deported. It is a national disgrace on the integrity of the whole country. We really need to desist from this fraudulent practices.
Any Nigerian either internationally or locally, found culpable of cyber crime deserves to be shamed and deported. It is bring a dent on the image of other Nigerians abroad and that should not be allowed.
Most of them deported were traveling without proper and validated travel documents, hence Ghana had to deport them back to Nigeria.
It is regrettable that some Nigerians still find themselves as victims of this irregular act. despite several warnings by the Federal Government
Truthfully, we need to desist from this fraudulent practices, illegal migration to the UAE and other countries. The victims should be deservedly punished.
Nigerians won’t stop causing a national disgrace abroad. Making the government of foreign countries tougher and harsh on incoming immigrants.
It is to everyone’s advantage that the deportees were apprehended at their homes in the course of a raid carried out by the operatives linked to the Ghana Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The deportees asserted that they were tricked into leaving the country or that they left on purpose in pursuit of better opportunities elsewhere, but instead they went on to commit crimes in their new countries.
Some of those who were deported had been coerced into participating in illegal activities, while others had moved there in the hope of amassing fortune more quickly, which is a common motivation for young people in today’s society.
Some of them would have entered Ghana illegally, some of them came across the sea, and various of them went into some west African countries before entering the country.
The vast majority of persons who were deported were found to have violated the law by traveling without proper and validated travel credentials. As a result, the government of Ghana was forced to make the inescapable decision to immediately deport them back to Nigeria.
It is unfortunate that some Nigerians still fall victim to illegal migration to the UAE and other countries despite repeated warnings from the Federal Government of Nigeria through its appropriate authorities.
This is what happens if you don’t have the means to leave the country in a lawful manner. Certain individuals have an innate susceptibility to being duped, you should be financially stable before making such a decision.
The cyber crime is continue to increase everyday in the country and its continue to give Nigeria bad image across the world and the level of security put in place by the government to curb the bad behaviour in not enough.
My prayer is that we should make the right decision in 2023 election. So that all this issue that government create by failing to do their duties will stop. If the country isokay people will not be running out of the country to servive. Many won’t be involve in crime. Government has frustrated Nigeria. Every country na deport nigeria because of crime. Shame to this government for all the pains the are causing us
Some Nigerians would always want to play smart, thinking other countries are as lawless as here. Trying to migrate illegally, coming through sea and the likes. We need to do better. All these only makes Nigerians keep getting banned everywhere
The rate of cybercriminality in Nigeria has to an alarming rate. The Nigerian government is business creating monsters that they will not be able to tame in the nearest future. When a government failed to do the needful, it should be expecting these kinds of things.
For has long as government is not doing their job crime rate will continue to increase unless government provides what the masses need the most.