Ghana: Nigerians in Ghana Are No Target

It looks like the Ghana-Nigeria relationship is beginning to feel the heat once again. In 1970, the government of the Second Republic, under then Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia, promulgated the Aliens Compliance Order, under which all illegal foreigners living in Ghana were required to regularise their stay or leave the country. A large number of Nigerians failed to regularise their stay and left.

Unfortunately, Nigeria took the exercise to mean a direct attack on its citizens in Ghana. In 1983, a year after Jerry John Rawlings had seized power, and with famine raging in the Ghanaian society, Nigeria sent two million Ghanaians in Nigeria back home. It was a direct retaliation for the 1970 exercise.

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