Border Closure: 1,107 Foreigners Arrested in Bono for Entering Ghana Illegally – GIS
The illegal immigrants are said to be aided by Ghanaian citizens to enter the country through unapproved routes.
Jonas Danquah 
A total of 1,107 foreign nationals who entered Ghana illegally following the border closure directive in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, have been apprehended in the Bono Region, the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has diclosed.
The GIS said the figures disclosed for illegal immigrants’ arrest in the Bono Region are from March March 18, 2020 to date.
According to reports from Graphic Online, the arrested immigrants, who are from;Togo, Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Benin and Guinea, have since been repatriated to their respective countries.
The illegal immigrants are purported to be aided by Ghanaian citizens to enter the country through unapproved routes.
The latest arrest of 17 of such illegal immigrants, comprising eight Togolese and nine Burkinabes, was made at the Kato Inland Immigration Check Point, near Berekum on Thursday, May 14, 2020, the Bono Regional Commander of the GIS, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration (ACI), Charles Yaw Bediako noted.
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Statistics
He gave the breakdown of statistics of the various countries whose nationals entered Ghana illegally through the Bono region as:
Togolese - 521;
Burkinabes -246;
Ivorians - 224;
Nigeriens - 34;
Nigerian, 7;
Beninese - 5
Guinea - 1
ACI Bediako explained that the illegal immigrants were arrested at check points at Gonokrom and Kofibadukrom in the Dormaa Central Municipality, Nkrankwanta in the West District, Sampa in the Jaman North District, Atronie, Yawhima and Abesim in the Sunyani Municipality, Tainso in the Tain District, Kato in the Berekum Municipality and Atuna and Kwameseikrom in the Jaman South Municipality.
He stated that 22 motorbikes used by some local residents at Nkrankwanta to carry the illegal immigrants had been impounded by officials of the GIS.
