Ghana Clarifies Role in US Deportation of West Africans, Cites Humanitarian Grounds

A group of fourteen West Africans deported from the United States to Ghana, have all been sent to their home countries of Nigeria and Gambia, according to a Ghanaian government spokesman.

Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, pushed back on criticism that the decision was an endorsement of the United States President, Donald Trump’s migration policies, insisting Ghana accepted the third-country deportees purely on humanitarian grounds.

At a press briefing in the capital, Accra, Ablakwa added that Ghana did not receive any financial compensation from the US over the deportation, however, lawyers of the deportees are questioning the legality of the whole process.