A call has gone to the US embassy in Ghana to make it easy for all Ghanaians to travel to America. According to Gregg Frazier, International Co-ordinator, O.G. Holdings, Ghanaians should be allowed special status to go and see their relatives who helped build the American dream.

In a welcome note to President Barrack Obama and his wife, Mr. Frazier stated, "Let Ghanaians come to America and meet us, the sold ones, without impediments and distrust. Let us share with them the technologies that we helped to create, so that together we can make Ghana stronger."

He stressed that just as President Obama has become the first Blackman to walk freely into the white house, let Ghana also be the first African nation to walk freely to America.

He noted that presently, the US embassy rejects more visas than they issue, with the usual explanation that the applicant does not have strong family ties.

He questioned why Ghanaians can have strong family ties if their family was ripped asunder, sold and sent to America.

He recalled that way back in 1998, former Presidents Bill Clinton and Mr. J. J. Rawlings initiated historic changes in Ghanaian - American relations, changes that should have had a positive and lasting effect on our two nations.

Mr. Frazier claimed that those agreements seem to have been discarded under Clinton's predecessor, with Ghana and Ghanaians being relegated to a beggar status.

"Mr. President, no one in Ghana wants another hand-out, we want a hand-up. His Excellency, as a matter of urgency tear down the barriers and borders between our countries. Not only is it the right thing to do in God's eyes, but it simply makes good economic sense."

"Ghana has always been the leader in Africa. Those Ghanaians who have managed to get through the arduous visa requirement and travelled to America are classic examples. We in America describe them as hard working, law abiding and brilliant," he stated.