The Ghana Immigration Service has detained and deported seventeen foreign people who entered the country through illegal ways along the Ghana-Togo border in Bunkpurugu (GIS).
Security agents apprehended the migrants, who included 16 Togolese and one Burkinabe, in a Bunkpurugu neighborhood where they were hiding.
The foreigners were apprehended by a team of Immigration, Police, and National Investigations Bureau (NIB) personnel, according to the GIS's Bunkpurugu Sector Commander, Chief Superintendent Rev. Edwin Adjetey Doku.
According to him, investigations revealed that they had rented an apartment and had been hiding for the previous three months.
They claimed to be working for QNET, an internet marketing company, he said.
"They revealed that they utilized an unauthorized method to enter Ghana after multiple interrogations and investigations," he claimed.
Repatriation
However, C/Supt Rev. Doku said that no proof of the migrants' involvement in terrorism was discovered on them.
However, the 17 were returned to Togo and handed up to Togo Border Operatives for further action. According to C/Supt Rev. Doku, the landlord who rented them housing had been summoned for questioning, and attempts were being taken to apprehend the putative agent who facilitated their entry into the nation.
Following a reported terrorist attack in northern Togo that killed eight troops and injured many more, locals living near the Ghana-Togo border in the Northern and North East areas are fearful and worried.
Last month's incident took place in Dapaongo, a town in northern Togo that shares borders with Ghana's Bunkpurugu and Tatale.
The township of Bunkpurugu is supposed to be roughly five kilometers away. Terrorism warning
Last week, the Ministry of National Security alerted security agencies to a suspicious movement of a group of people in the Upper East and North East regions' Garu, Bunkpurugu, and Nakpanduri.
The gang was spotted on motorbikes in the Garu District, according to a notification made by the ministry and copied to the Ghana Armed Forces and the Ghana Police Service on Friday, June 3, 2022.
The notification stated, "Intelligence obtained revealed suspicious movement of a group of people along a hilly terrain that borders Bunkpurugu/Nankpanduri District in the North East Region and Garu in the Upper East Region."