U.S.-deported Nigerians sue Ghana for illegal detention
Some Nigerians and Gambians recently deported from the U.S. to Ghana have filed a lawsuit challenging their detention.
Legal counsel for 11 of the 14 deportees, Oliver-Barker Vormawor, is challenging their detention in Ghana’s military camp against their will.
Mr Vormawor, told the BBC on Thursday, that the “deportees had not violated any Ghanaian law, and their detention in a military camp was therefore illegal”.
According to the BBC, Mr Vormawor wants the government to produce the group in court, and justify why they were being held against their will.
Last week Friday, five of the deportees, three Nigerians and two Gambians, filed a lawsuit in Washington DC.
They are challenging the U.S. government for deporting them to Ghana only for them to be returned to their countries of origin in violation of “U.S. immigration judges and U.S. immigration law”.
Both lawsuits came after Ghanaian authorities accepted 14 U.S. deportees last week.
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