The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has secured the conviction of a Nigerian nationwide, Promise Ebuorbo, for harboring unlawful migrants and remaining within the nation without a allow.
The convict was arrested at Sampa Valley, Weija, along with 4 different Nigerian nation
als, after intelligence revealed that he had housed 10 boys in a rented house and facilitated their involvement in on-line scams, defrauding harmless people of considerable sums of cash.
The pinnacle of Public Relations of the GIS, Assistant Feeer of Immigration (ACI) Michael Amoako-Atta, in a press assertion issued in Accra on Wednesday copied The Ghanaian Instances stated,
following investigations and execsecution, Promise Ebuorbo was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment and fined 50 penalty items.
His 4 accomplices have been additionally convicted and fined 100 penalty items every.
In the meantime, the GIS has reiterated its warning to landlords and property house owners to diligently confirm the immigration standing of migrant tenants and supply lodging to solely authorized residents.
Including that, “failure to take action will represent a violation of legal guidelines prohibiting the harboring of irregular migrants.”
It stated the GIS remained firmly dedicated to implementing the nation’s immigration legal guidelines and defending the general public from transnationwide crimes, in collaboration with sister safety companies and worldwide companions
BY TIMES REPORTER
