Nkrankrom-Sunyani, June 26, GNA – The residents of Nkrankrom, a farming community near Abesim in the Sunyani Municipality was on Sunday sensitised on the hazards associated with illegal migration.
The event was organised by the Sunyani Youth Development Association (SYDA), in collaboration with Initiative Black and White (IBW), a non-governmental organisation based in Ghana and Germany.
The officials from the Migration Information Centre (MIC) of the Ghana Immigration Service in Sunyani facilitated the programme attended by more than 300 people, which included chiefs, family heads and the youth.
It was to educate the people about the extent of untimely deaths of a lot of Ghanaian young men and women while travelling through the desert to Libya and on the high seas to Italy and Spain so seek greener pastures.
Superintendent Haruna Alhassan, the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regions Officer in charge of the MIC, in a presentation, said “it is best to contact the MIC when one wishes to travel”.
He said the Centre would then educate the prospective traveller about the dos and don’ts in the preparation to travel, but through legal means, to prevent the risks, especially unexpected deaths that could come through the menace of illegal migration.
Mr. Alhassan advised parents and guardians to advise their children and wards not to think of illegal migration because the possibility of losing one’s life along the way was higher than survival.
He said illegal migration among the youth in the three regions of Bono, Bono East and Ahafo had become a canker that had eaten deep into the psyche of the youth.
He noted that it has not been beneficial to most of those who had made that dangerous adventure over the years and their families because death tolls along the journey greatly out-numbered the survival rate, he stated.
Mr. Atta Akoto Snr, the President of the SYDA stressed the need for young people, especially those in the three regions to take advantage of government’s programmes and policies for self-employment to create jobs for themselves rather than embarking on such “dangerous death-warrant voyages”.
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