Ghana's government has invoked a clause of the 1951 Refugee Convention to force the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to close operations for 26,000 Liberians in Ghana.
It is a sad event that after all these years of relative calm, Liberian refugees in Ghana are being treated as criminals. As a sister of some refugees, I am disssapointed with the treatment which my relatives have recieved. I can understand the hard feelings from the interior minister about majority of the refugees refusal to integrate into the Ghanaian society. Yet the minister has to understand that most Ghanaians discriminate against Liberians when it comes to getting jobs. 2 of my relatives said that they don't want to integrate because their spaces for resettlement were illegally given to Ghanaians and they could not get jobs. They said it would be better that they be given the money for reintegration. They can return home to Liberia. At home they will be welcome and they can contribute to the Liberian society. The money will help boost the Liberian economy and create more avenues for others to return. This will take away the disdain most refugees feel while in some host countries when international aide agencies have left.
Africa can never be a united states of Africa, Liberia has refugees camps on its soil from other African countries , what a shame helpless women and children sitting in a open field because they fear to go back home from memories of the war have been beating by Ghanaian police , these people have lost everything in life ( family members, property) they are not ungrateful, being a refugee is not a crime , they are the victims, they did not ask to for what people like Charles Taylor, prince Johnson and so on have done to them and their family members , I can understand them not wanted to go back with most of the war lords still passing around in Liberia some with are in the per sent government as senators
Okay!! Now that the war is over, Let the Liberian refugees residing in Ghana go back home. Back home they have pure water to drink and bath. Back home they have their extended relatives waiting to see them. There they will no more live in fear. Now here is the deeds fellow Liberians. In Monrovia there are thousands of Ghanaians living freely and employed by our government, and other agencies. I think it's about time for these Ghanaians to return in their home, in order to make space for our families from Buduburam camp. The Liberian refugees have suffered for so many years. Their birth rights were stolen by Ghanaians just to travel to America. In my state alone there are so many Ghanaians with Liberian passports and Liberians refugee status. Why is the GOL apologizing to The Ghanaian government? After all our people have gone through. Tell Mrs. Sirleaf to do the right thing for the people of Liberia. We are tired of selling our birth right to the Ghanaians. Please make space for the refugees in Monrovia. Send all Ghanaians back and let the refugees take their spaces!
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