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Forty Liberian refugees are expected to leave Ghana to their home country in a special UN plane, Sunday.
The voluntary repatriation is part of an on-going programme by the agency to end their refugee status. The first batch left last Friday.
Though happy to go home, most of them were disappointed they could not take along their belongings.
Some of the unhappy deportees told Joy News’ Anny Osabutey who was present at the airport that they dread having to go back home and start all over again.
Some came into the country in the early nineties as teenagers when the civil war broke out in Liberia but are now returning as adults with children.
More than 10,000 refugees are still in the Budumburam camp here in Ghana but are yet to take advantage of the voluntary repatriation.
Some of the refugees went on a demonstration in 2008 protesting their continued stay in Ghana.
They were seeking to be taken to America and be given an American citizenship but that did not work out.
Meanwhile, assistant information officer at the UNHCR Ewurabena Hutchful told MJOYNEWS the dwindling numbers of returnees means they have to explore the option of airlifting the passengers, instead of getting them on ships.
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