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98 ‘backway’ migrants  arrested

Nov 3, 2021, 1:52 PM

Mamanding Dibba, public relations officer of The Gambia Immigration Department has told The Point that 98 migrants who came from Guniea Conakry and Togo were arrested in Tanji .

‘’They were arrested for trying to sail to Canary Island. They came by road yesterday from Conakry. Twenty-five of them are female with 24 from Guinean and one, a Togolese. They came here through the arrangement of a Gambian company called Qnet.”

“Interrogations have started which revealed that some have paid 2000 US Dollars or D3000 US Dollars.”

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