{"id":96044,"date":"2025-09-27T14:19:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=96044"},"modified":"2025-09-27T14:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:19:56","slug":"ablakwa-accepted-us-deportees-to-reverse-visa-sanctions-over-diplomatic-blunder-rev-ntim-fordjour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=96044","title":{"rendered":"Ablakwa accepted US deportees to reverse visa sanctions over diplomatic blunder \u2013 Rev. Ntim Fordjour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ranking Member on Parliament\u2019s Defence and Interior Committee, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has accused Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa of violating Ghana\u2019s Constitution by accepting deportees from the United States without parliamentary approval.<\/p>\n

The Assin South MP alleged that the decision was a desperate attempt to appease Washington and reverse visa restrictions imposed on Ghana following what he described as Ablakwa\u2019s earlier \u201cdiplomatic faux pas.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a social media post on Saturday, September 27, Rev. Fordjour criticised the government for focusing on repairing its image abroad while neglecting pressing security concerns at home.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that some 23,000 refugees displaced by the Gbinyiri conflict remain stranded and at risk of radicalisation in neighbouring countries, yet no comprehensive plan has been laid out for their reintegration.<\/p>\n

According to him, the government\u2019s acceptance of deportees, whom even their home countries had rejected, was purely transactional and aimed at regaining favour with the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we pointed them to the transactional acceptance of US deportees as a gesture and condition precedent (among other offers) to \u2018clean\u2019 their diplomatic faux pas with the US government, which attracted avoidable visa sanctions on Ghana, they denied,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Rev. Fordjour stressed that events have vindicated his position, noting that the US reversed its visa restrictions on Ghana shortly after the deportees were accepted.<\/p>\n

He further accused the government of using the country as a \u201cdumping ground\u201d in violation of constitutional provisions and suggested that Ablakwa rushed the process to showcase progress in Ghana-US relations during the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is why they couldn\u2019t wait till November for Parliament to reconvene in order to properly lay the deportation agreement for proper scrutiny and consequential approval or otherwise,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Rev. Fordjour concluded with a sharp warning: \u201cYou see the price you pay when propagandists lead sensitive diplomatic pursuits of a highly esteemed country?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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