Liberians living in the West African state of Benin says they are facing severe hardship and want the government find ways to repatriate them back home.

The group of Liberians in a dispatch from their country which was signed by their Chairman, Mr. Foday Kromah, the group of Liberians said some of them want to come home on their own but the lack of a Liberian mission office and the failure of the government to designate someone as a prominent ambassador or a charge's affairs is posing problem to them to get the relevant traveling document to return.

The Liberians said just in case they want to travel back home under the current condition, that means that they will first have to travel to Ghana or Nigeria or some other West African states where the country's have a mission office to secure traveling documents before coming to Liberia.

According to them, the cost associated with traveling to those countries to obtain documents before coming to Liberia is too expensive for them and has made it impossible for most of them to return home.

The group of Liberians, over 500 persons have urged the Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to see the need to designate a foreign diplomat who could serve as a consulate to represent the country's interest in that country.

They added in the dispatch that few members of the Liberian community are being held by the security forces in that country either because they do not have proper traveling documents or valid resident permit.

They said because most of them fall in the category where their resident permits have expired, they are being harassed by the security forces.

The dispatch also quoted them as saying that due to the constrains they are faced with, they have chosen to return home but the high cost to travel elsewhere to obtain documents before traveling to Liberia is posing a great challenge to them.

The Liberians recalled that during the visit of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to that country in June this year, she pleaded with her counterpart of that country to relax the security measures against some of them with invalid traveling documents, stressing that it appears that the request has now fallen on death ears.

They said at the time of the President's visit, she also promised to work with the UNHRC and the Liberian Repatriation Resettlement and Rehabilitation Commission (LRRRC), to assist with their repatriation but since then nothing has been said or heard on the issue.

In mid June this year, when she visited Benin to attend the Sahel Saharan States Conference, President Sirleaf met with the Liberian community in that country at which time she presented US$1,000.00 to them and promised to assist them return home.