Ghanaian who married for citizenship ‘kicked out’ of Australia for sexually assaulting a minor

A 53-year-old Ghanaian father-of-seven, jailed six years for sexually assaulting a child, has had his Australian citizenship revoked.

His ‘eviction notice’ followed a sexual assault case leveled against him in 2014.

The man’s real name and date of birth are not known, however, the man is known in Australia as Oko Mensah or Nii Odai Frank Quaye.

Mr. Mensah is reported to have arrived in the Australian city of Perth in 2003 on a spouse visa.

Within the short space of time, he married two different Australian women at different times in his quest to continue staying in Australia.

He pleaded guilty to the charge of aggravated sexual assault of a minor and was subsequently served with the citizenship revocation document.

Mr Mensah appealed to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal shortly but his appeal was rejected.

His argument was that “he was forced to lie because of death threats to himself and his family.”

A senior Administrative Appeals Tribunal member, Adria Poljak said, “The applicant’s migration offences and citizenship offence are serious.”

“There is a great deal of interest in deterring others in the community from committing similar offences. Accordingly, it is contrary to the public interest for the applicant to continue to be an Australian citizen,” reported The Daily Telegraph.

The facts of the case as reported by the tribunal are that the man’s lies began in 2002 when he met Judith Anne Jullen while she was on holiday in Ghana.

He failed to inform authorities he had children when he arrived in Perth in 2003 on a spouse visa.

His marriage to Ms Jullen didn’t last a month and his visa was cancelled in April 2004.

However, he attempted to unlawfully stay until he was caught by immigration officials and deported in May.

Mensah then got to know his next wife Anita Jean Baines, another Australian citizen, over the telephone while he was back in Ghana.

It is not known how they were introduced, however, the tribunal heard that Ms Baines provided him with financial support before they met.

On December 1, 2004, Ms Baines and her daughter visited him in Ghana and just over two weeks later they were married.

As soon as a three-year visa exclusion expired from Mensah’s attempted overstay, he arrived back in the country on another spouse visa.

He arrived in the country with his seven children after he was granted a citizenship visa in 2011.

Mensah and Ms Baines split up in February 2014 and he was convicted of the sexual assault and sent to prison in April 2016.

Despite his children speaking on his behalf and the claims, his life would be in danger if he returned to Ghana, his citizenship was revoked by the tribunal citing no evidence of this.