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U/E: Residents urged to properly investigate foreigners before renting them accommodation

The Upper East Regional Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Immigration Service, Assistant Superintendent of Immigration Martin Tioseh Soyeh has admonished residents in the region to always do proper checks about foreign nationals seeking to rent their properties.

According to Mr. Soyeh many of the foreigners in the region does not have legal documents to stay in the country nor operate businesses; hence residents should be alert in order not to rent properties to suspected immigrants.

He was speaking at the backdrop of about 400 foreign nationals including pregnant women who were arrested by Counter-terrorism unity of the Ghana Police Service in Koforidua in the Eastern region who were purported to be illegal internet operators known as Q – Net.

“We are urging house and shop owners who are intending to rent out their houses and stores to foreigners that before they do that, they should make sure that the immigration status of such foreigners are regularized. This is to say that, if the person is up to 20 years he or she must have a residence and work permit, and the type of trade he should do as a foreigner. As a foreigner you stock and distribute, you don’t do retailing, retailing is left for Ghanaians so if a Ghanaian also fails to check on this status and rent out a house or store for business that Ghanaian too is at fault.”

Mr. Soyeh who was speaking to A1Radio on ‘Daybreak Upper East’ show noted that any Ghanaian who fails to properly check the immigration status of a foreigner before accommodating him or her is at fault.

It could be recalled that the Upper East Regional Command of the Ghana Immigration Service in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service in April this year repatriated about 163 foreigners in the Bolgatanga Municipality.

The repatriated foreigners consisted mostly of Nigerians who were engaged in illegal business such as Q-Net and Togolese in a bus who were intercepted by the Ghana Police Service at Pwalugu coming into the municipality.

Source:Fiilafmonline/A1Radioonline.

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