Ghana has asked the Brazilian
government to deport the 193
Ghanaian soccer fans seeking
asylum in that country as soon as
their Visas expire.
Government has begun working
the diplomatic channels to get the
football fans who have
embarrassed the nation by seeking
asylum in Brazil, sent home,
according to the Foreign Affairs
Ministry.
The fans who were flown by
government to Brazil to support
the Black Stars in the 2014 World
Cup tournament there, have argued
that they are Muslims fleeing inter-
religious conflicts in Ghana.
The Brazilian government is
reported to be considering their
asylum application.
But the Foreign Affairs Ministry in
a statement said these individuals
simply do not want to return to
Ghana and must be deported.
Government on Friday denied the
claim of the fans and ordered the
Embassy in Brazil to liaise with
authorities there to investigate the
development.
“Government states for the record
that the basis for this alleged
request is completely false as no
religious conflict is taking place in
Ghana,” a government statement
noted.
Speaking on Top Story on Joy FM,
Chief Director of the Foreign Affairs
Ministry, Leslie Kojo Christian said
the Foreign Affairs Ministry has
contacted the Brazilian
government and has insisted that
there is no basis to grant the
Ghanaians asylum.
“We do not believe there is any
reason that can be advanced to
support their asylum status [in
Brazil]…We’ve made our position
clear but it’s left with the Brazilian
government to decide,” Mr. Kojo
Christian stated.
Meanwhile, International Relations
expert, Dr. Vladimir Antwi Danso
says governmentt has every right
to get the Brazilian authorities to
refuse the application for asylum.
“They were transported there for a
specific reason and for them to go
there and seek asylum on
unfounded ground, the government
has every right to react the way
they have reacted,” Dr. Antwi
Danso told Evans Mensah.
According to him, “…the only
ogbligation the Ghana government
owes them [fans] is because they
hold Ghanaian passports”.
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