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Friday, April 25, 2008
Between 25 and 30 stranded Africans have answered the call to check in with the Immigration Department for processing. But some remain on the outside, because of concerns including what treatment would be received from the authorities. Co-chairman of the Global Afrikan Congress (GAC), former Government minister Trevor Prescod, yesterday gave the figures on the number of Ghanaians and Nigerians responding to the call. He said several of these were people the GAC had personally asked to visit the Immigration Department last Monday. He urged the Government to immediately launch an investigation into how the Africans became stranded on February 15. Nearly 150 people from Nigeria and Ghana arrived here February 1, with a two-week holiday in mind. Some went on to Trinidad and Jamaica. They were supposed to leave the Caribbean for home February 15, but the plane never came. Efforts to reach Chief Immigration Officer Gilbert Greaves yesterday for a comment proved unsuccessful. |
