Some of these migrants may actually be fugitives from justice whose deadly antisocial activities need to be effectively contained (See “Illegal Immigrants: Immigration Service Blames Flexible ECOWAS Policy” Citifmonline.com / Modernghana.com 3/8/18). The reintroduction of visas would also ensure that citizens of one ECOWAS nation wishing to cross into another nation could be profiled and monitored for security purposes. Among such basic requirements could be academic and professional qualifications, employment status at the time of visa application and a range of acceptable reasons for moving from one ECOWAS polity to another. Visa requirements could also be made flexible without necessarily comprising the security and quality-of-life status of the citizens and residents of host countries. The free-movement tenet among the ECOWAS principles may very well be one such premature idea.

Source: GhanaWeb March 11, 2018 00:11 UTC