@heritageliberia: Deported Liberians from Ghana welcomed By Pres. Tubman In 1971. LIBERIANS ARRIVING IN MONROVIA ON SUNDAY, MARCH TWENTY-EIGHTH, 1971 THEY ARE THE FIRST LIBERIAN NATIONALS WHO ARE RETURNING TO THE COUNTRY AFTER HAVING EMIGRATED TO GHANA. IN DECEMBER 1969, THE GHANAIAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED SWEEPING CHANGES IN THEIR IMMIGRATION AND RESIDENCE LAWS, AND ALIENS WITHOUT RESIDENCE PERMITS WERE ORDERED TO LEAVE. LIBERIA'S PRESIDENT WILLIAM TUBMAN PERSONALLY LED A DELEGATION TO MEET THE EXPATRIATES, GIVING THEM AN OFFICIAL WELCOME BACK. HE SAID THAT HE WAS MEETING THEM BECAUSE THEY HAD NOT BEEN EXPELLED FOR UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES, BUT BECAUSE THE GHANIAN GOVERNMENT WAS ACTING IN THE INTERESTS OF ITS OWN PEOPLE. PRESIDENT TUBMAN CONTINUED HIS SPEECH BY SAYING THAT THE RETURNING LIBERIANS HAD CONE TO GHANA FOR ECONOMIC REASONS, AND NOW THAT THEY HAD BEEN EXPELLED THEY SHOULD HARBOUR NO ILL-WILL AGAINST EITHER THE GOVERNMENT OR THE PEOPLE OF GHANA. AMONG THE GROUP WERE ELDERLY MEN WHO HAD EMIGRATED IN 1925 - OTHERS, WHO WERE RETURNING WITH FAMILIES BORN IN GHANA, HAD LIVED THERE FOR MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS. THE NEW ARRIVALS WERE GIVEN COMPLETE MEDICAL CHECK-UPS BY DOCTORS WHO WERE ON HAND TO MEET THEM. SEVERAL OF THEM WERE GIVEN ANTI-CHOLERA VACCINATION FOR PROTECTION AGAINST THE DISEASE BEFORE THEY WERE TO BE RESETTLED IN TOWNS AND TRIBES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. . #heritageliberia #liberianhistory #liberianstory #ourstory #ourhistory #liberiahistory #liberiastory #lrrrc #returneesfromghana #liberians #liberiansreturnees #liberia #liberia #returnees

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