Acting Director-General of National Road Safety Authority (NRSA), Abraham Amaliba has urged government to send deportation agreement with the United States to Parliament for ratification.
Despite pointing out that he finds the Supreme Court decision which makes this ratification problematic, he believes government must simply comply as that is the current position.
“Anytime I’m doing politics and law comes in, politics takes back stage. No matter how bad the law is, it is still the law. I agree that the ruling by the Supreme Court then that lamb matters which are just correspondences which do not have legal intention as much as they lamb all of them together and say they must be sent to Parliament, I can’t say anything contrary, that is the law for now.
“I think that it is compelling for Government to do just that,” he stated in an interview on TV3 New Day’s The Big issue, Friday, September 19, 2025.
President John Dramani Mahama disclosed last week during the media engagement that the 14 West African deportees arrived in Ghana after an agreement with the US government.
The agreement comes amid President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policy, which has seen record-level deportations of migrants living illegally in the US.
Following the President’s announcement, the Minority Caucus on the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament demanded that government immediately suspend the agreement with the United States to receive deportees of West African origin.
In a statement issued by the Minority Caucus on Friday, September 12, 2025, Ranking Member on the Foreign Affairs Committee, Samuel Jinapor explained that the decision by the government is a breach of the constitution and raises “serious” concerns about the country’s sovereignty and foreign policies.
The Minority argued that Article 75 of the constitution mandates the President to lay any treaty, agreement, or convention before Parliament for ratification by the House before it is executed.
This, they say was not done with this agreement by government with the US to accept West African deportees.
