Ghana Refugee Board to naturalise 3,500 Liberian refugees

Magdalene Teiko Larnyoh 23:47 - 15 September 2016

Executive Director of the Ghana Refugees Board Dr Anani explained that they have started liaising with other key stakeholders to help facilitate the naturalisation process.

The Ghana Refugees Board (GRB) has indicated that it has started a process to naturalise 3,5000 Liberian refugees who are interested in integrating into the Ghanaian society.

This was revealed by the Executive Director of the Board Dr Kofi Anani at a press conference in Accra.

According to the ‘Daily Graphic,’ Dr Anani explained that they have started liaising with other key stakeholders to help facilitate the program.

The stakeholders are Parliament, Ghana Immigration Service and the Ghana Police Service.

Some citizens of Liberia fled their home during the first Liberian Civil War (1989-2003) to Ghana. After some time, just when the citizens were forgetting the first war, the Second Liberian Civil War also started(1999–2003).

Addressing the news conference, the Executive Director of the GRB, Dr Kofi Anani, said the Board has also helped repatriate over 40,000 Liberian refugees but 3,500 opted not to go back to Liberia when the voluntary repatriation programme started hence the naturalisation.

Dr Anani said there were currently 21,331 refugees in Ghana from 26 countries.