Posted by Samuel on Fri 01st Aug, 2025 - tori.ng
His statement comes as a viral video on Tuesday showed a large number of Ghanaians protesting with placards suggesting the deportation of Nigerians.
SOG Precious, a popular Ghanaian on-air personality and media strategist with Starr FM, has claimed that the recent "Nigeria Must Go" protest in Ghana was a form of retaliation for the 1983 "Ghana Must Go" expulsion in Nigeria.
Precious made this known in an interview on Channels TV’s Morning Brief on Friday.
His statement comes as a viral video on Tuesday showed a large number of Ghanaians protesting with placards suggesting the deportation of Nigerians.
Reacting to the protest, Precious said, “It is a form of retaliation for what happened in 1988.”
He further claimed data in Ghana suggests that some Nigerians, especially young girls, are prominent in prostitution and other outlawed activities in the country.
Meanwhile, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has appealed for calm over the matter, noting that there is “no cause for alarm.”
Earlier, the Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Ambassador Demola, said the protest is not against all Nigerians but against some persons with undesirable activities in Ghana.
“I think the focus is on the tertiary traders and people whom I would describe as probably undesirable to their system, to their economy,” he said in an interview on Arise News.
Recall that in 1983, there was a mass deportation of Ghanaians from Nigeria under former President Shehu Shagari.