The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Hanna Tetteh has answered questions concerning Ghana’s response to the xenophobic attacks in South Africa and other developments relating to Ghanaians living there.
She also spoke about related issues including whether Ghanaians died in the recent sinking of a vessel on the mediterranian.
She also responded to concerns about foreigners taking over jobs in Ghana’s oil and gas sector.
Madam Tetteh also responded to issues relating to her ministry, including the “chaos” at the passport office which she described as one of her “headaches” as a minister.
Host of the Citi Breakfast Show Bernard Avle and Radio Gold’s Alhassan Suhinin interviewed the minister on the latest developments in that country.
The demonstration being organized against Xenophobia in South Africa is in the right direction – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
We have overhauled the process for issuing Diplomatic Passports – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
We’re working with the national security to restructure the passport office which will deal with ‘Goro Boys’ – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
We don’t totally control the activities at the Passport office – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
We’ve ordered 2 new passport printers that print 20 passports at a time – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
The happenings at the passport office is one of my biggest headaches – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
Employment agencies recruiting Ghanaians to work in other countries are by law to register with the ministry of employment – Hanna #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
The information we have so far is that about 4 or 5 Ghanaians were thrown overboard in the vessel – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
What we can do as Ghanaians is to enforce our local content laws – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
We have an open economy and foreigners will come and work in Ghana – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
You can’t have an open/global economy and close your space to others – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
It’s important Ghanaians don’t become Xenophobic – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
The number of people who end up in brothels in name of searching for greener pastures in Europe is horrific – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
#CitiCBS Is there a sense of shame when you hear that Ghanaians are part of people losing their lives in a bid to… http://t.co/K4AlxKzvvo
— Kwadwo Akoto Boateng (@KojoAB) April 21, 2015
You don’t make assumptions that people are peaceful and leave it like that – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
African governments must improve on their intelligence gathering systems – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
I never said Mr. Quarcoo died from Xenophobic attacks – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
The current crises in South Africa will be managed and brought under control – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
President @JDMahama condemned the attacks both as President of Ghana and Chairman of ECOWAS – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
We’ve sent some national security officials to South Africa to monitor the situation – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
We must treat some of the images on Social Media relating to the attacks with caution – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
I believe some of the images on Social Media about the attacks were misleading – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
As of Friday, there had been 70 arrests in Durban – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
The South African citizens were realized to be reacting to the lack of opportunities – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
The South African citizens were realized to be reacting to the lack of opportunities – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
We made preliminary arrangements for a chartered flight to evacuate our people from South Africa if necessary – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
Our embassy in South Africa advised our people to restrict movement when the Xenophobic attacks begun – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
The feedback from our embassy in South Africa was that no Ghanaian was attacked when it started – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
We got in touch with our embassy in South Africa after the first Xenophobic attack – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
We’re yet to receive the autopsy report on Mr. Quarcoo – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
Mr. Quarcoo had epileptic seizure before he died – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
No Ghanaian has died as a result of Xenophobic attacks – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
We’ve over 10,000 Ghanaians living in South Africa – Hanna Tetteh #CitiCBS
— 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) April 21, 2015
By: citifmonline.com/Ghana