The Sue Sue deportees of Ghana Government on “illegal” detention

Eleven people detained in Ghana after being expelled from the United States continued the government of the West African nation, their lawyer at the BBC told.

Oliver-Barker Vormawor said the deportees had raped any Ghanaian law and that their detention in a military camp was therefore illegal.

He wanted the government to produce the group in court and justify why they were detained against their will, the lawyer added.

The government has not yet commented on law prosecution, but previously declared that it planned to accept 40 other deportees. Opposition deputies require the immediate suspension of the expulsion agreement until Parliament ratifies it, claiming that this was required by Ghanaian law.

Last week, President of Ghana, John Mahama, said that 14 deportees of West African origin arrived in the country following an agreement concluded with the United States.

He later said that everyone had returned to their country of origin, although the Minister of Foreign Affairs Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa contradicts him by saying that only most of them had been returned.

The judicial request of Mr. Vormawor contradicts them both, saying that 11 deportees are still in detention in Ghana.

The 11 were detained in an American detention center before being chained and expelled on a military freight plane, according to documents deposited in court.

Deportations are part of the difficult approach of the United States government with regard to immigration since President Donald Trump took office in January.

He promised to illegally lead the record deportations of migrants to the country.

The Ghana Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs was cited on Monday by the Reuters news agency saying that the decision to accept the deportees was based on “a humanitarian principle and a pan -African empathy”.

“This should not be misinterpreted as an approval from the immigration policies of the Trump administration,” he said.

Five of the detainees, three Nigerians and two Gambians, also continued the US government, arguing that they were protected by a court order and should not have been expelled.