I was desperate to travel abroad, so I tried ‘connection’ for 15 years before getting a visa – UK-based Ghanaian reveals

Kwasi Kwarteng, a Ghanaian living in the UK, revealed he was desperate to leave the country and tried for years until he got a visa in 2021. 

Speaking on SVTV Africa, Kwasi indicated that traveling abroad was a lifelong dream and had to accomplish it. He began applying for visas through travel agents after senior high school. Mr Kwarteng dedicated his money and five years of his life to the cause but failed. 

“I wasted my mother’s money on connections, but I never got the visa. She later advised me to apply to study at a university and put a pause on that. I studied at UDS and completed it in 2016. The spirit to travel returned right after my national service in 2017, but my mom didn’t have the money to support me. I had to take my destiny into my own hands. 

I got a job and began saving me. I looked wretched, but I had money saved in my account. I planned to do everything possible to leave the shores of Africa. Back in 2009, I was desperate to travel to the US, so the agents duped me, he told DJ Nyaami. 

According to Kwasi, it may take a long time for Ghanaian youth to make it in the country unless they have a politician or a pastor in the family. 

“No child of a rich man will leave Ghana to stay abroad if it is not for holidays. But for some of us, who do not have any influential person in our family like a politician or a pastor, it will take years to make it in Ghana,” he added. 

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