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The Ghana Refugees Board says it is considering recommendations of a committee set up to map out strategies to solve its leadership challenges at the Buduburam Camp in the Central Region.
The board manages activities relating to refugees in the country and grants refugee status to asylum seekers from areas of civil conflict.
Officials of the board, non-governmental organizations at the camp and the police constituted the committee.
The camp was thrown into chaos last Sunday when police stormed there to stall the inauguration of new welfare leaders the residents had appointed to manage their affairs.
They told Joy News the existing leadership had failed to fight for the interest of the community.
One woman, a Ghanaian resident at the camp, lost her life during the raid. Residents accuse the police of shooting her.
The police say the residents side-stepped existing welfare leadership, contrary to an earlier agreement with the Refugees Board and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
But the Coordinator of the Ghana Refugees Board Tetteh Padi has assured that the problem would soon be over.
Meanwhile all 43 refugees picked up last Sunday during the raid have been remanded into prison custody by a court in Cape Coast, except two females among them who would spend the remand period at the police cells.
Prosecutors charged the suspects with various offences including rioting and conspiracy to commit crime.
They are to reappear on 1st March, 2011.
Story by Fiifi Koomson/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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