A group of Bukinabe Nationals in Grand Gedeh County is calling on the government through the LRRRC to provide them urgent protection.
The group alarms of constant harassment, mistreatment amongst others by unidentified men claiming to be state security personnel.
The Burkinabes are appealing to the government to be identified in order to move freely without any form of intimidation in the county.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Burkinabe have been trooping into the corridors of the LRRRC county office to seek asylum.
Recently, the LRRRC along with other stakeholders visited the sub-eastern region following reports of increasing influx of Bukinabe.
The southeast reported an estimated 40, 000 Burkinabes residing in Grand Gedeh alone.
LRRRC as part of its mandate to provide international protection for refugees, asylum seekers and persons of concern, organized a one day stakeholder dialogue in collaboration with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to address the issue of undocumented migrants in Liberia.
At the end of the meeting, a decision was reached by stakeholders including the Ministry of Justice, Labour, local government authorities amongst others to carry out a profiling exercise in areas of concern.
LRRRC is a signatory to the 1951 Geneva’s convention on the status of refugee and the Addis Ababa 1990 convention governing specific aspects of the refugees’ problem in Africa nation’s progress.
