Diasporia News of Saturday, 16 April 2005
Source: Mirror
THREE times he went to Japan with different passports and three times he was deported.
Franklin Reagan Tachie, 35, was, however, not lucky the third time as he returned as a cripple and is now homeless.
He first went to Japan in 1989 with a Nigerian passport through the services of a ?connection man?. He was deported in 1993 after his arrest.
He went for the second time through Europe with a Dutch passport in 1997 and was deported in March 2000 after a second arrest.
Tachie, a native of Esasu, near Kumasi, went back in June 2000 with a Ghanaian passport but was deported on March 14, 2005.
Narrating his ordeal to the Graphic last Friday, Tachie said he went back to Japan on June 9, 2000 with a Ghanaian passport and a three-month valid visa.
Within the three months, he got married to a Japanese lady, for which reason he was given a one-year spousal visa and was to re-apply for its renewal three months before it expired.