Ghanaian Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa revealed on Thursday that he had visited two Ghanaians detained as prisoners of war (PoWs) in Ukraine.
Ablakwa, who is on an official visit to Ukraine, disclosed in a Facebook post that the two Ghanaians were in a fortified security camp where Ukraine holds the PoWs, adding that these compatriots were alive and in good health.
“I thank President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha for granting my request to visit the two Ghanaian prisoners of war,” the minister stated.
According to the foreign minister, the two Ghanaian PoWs have pledged their determination to become advocates against the modus operandi of trafficking networks and were willing to devote the rest of their lives to educating vulnerable Africans on how to avoid such predicaments.
Earlier in a meeting with the Ukrainian president, Ablakwa appealed for the release of the two Ghanaians on humanitarian grounds.
“I conveyed the gratitude of President John Dramani Mahama and the government of Ghana to President Zelenskyy for ensuring that the rights of our citizens being held are protected as required under international law,” Ablakwa wrote in an earlier post on Wednesday.
He said Ghana and Ukraine had agreed to deepen their relations through strategic interventions in agriculture, defense, education, and trade. Zelenskyy extended a formal invitation to President Mahama as Kyiv seeks to elevate its diplomatic ties with Accra