General News of Sunday, 19 May 2019Source: ghananewsagency.orgBurkinabe nationals fleeing to Ghana through Sissala enclaveBurkinabe illegal migrants settling along the Sissala enclave in the Upper West RegionOver 1000 migrant from northern Burkina Faso have fled their home country to settle along the Sissala enclave as farmers over alleged unrest in the Francophone West African country. The team included Member of Parliament for Sissala East Constituency, Mr Ridwan Abass Dauda and officials from National Disaster Management Organization, Beaurau of National Investigations and Ghana Police Service, Ghana Immigration Service and Ghana Fire Service. Reports from the area also indicated that the large arable land could be the reason for the increasing numbers of Burkinabe nationals moving into the geographical area. Superintendent Samuel Donkor, the Sissala East Municipal Commander of Ghana Immigration Service, told the GNA that the foreign settlers may have to be profiled to establish whether they are asylum seekers. The Sissala East Municipal Chief Executive Mr Karim expressed unhappiness about the chiefs and landlords for keeping the foreigners without informing the appropriate authorities and pledged to report the matter to higher authority for action.

Source: GhanaWeb May 19, 2019 00:56 UTC