US-based Ghanaian Kingfred disclosed that he was arrested at a US airport for possessing fake documents and detained in Colorado for three years but it turned out to be the best years of his life.
Kingfred was refused entry by immigration in 1988 and detained for three years hoping to be released. In an interview on Daily Hustle Worldwide, Kingfred mentioned that those three years benefitted him because he learned much about America and made him more determined.
“Those three years taught me how to speak like an American from the inside out. It taught me how to act like an American. It taught me work ethics, discipline, focus and drive. I cried for the first two months and I didn’t know it was going to be three years. I worked for $1 a day in the kitchen and eventually became a trustee,” he recounted.
Kingfred’s father lived in Canada at the time however he refused to sign Kingfred’s release and transportation to Canada over a misunderstanding they had.
“He said ‘No, I will not.’ Those were his words because I chose to be a welder instead of a doctor. I had spent two years already. A year later, I chose deportation and returned to Ghana.”
After a few months in Ghana, Kingfred returned to the US in 1991. According to him, the accent he picked up at the detention centre saved him at the immigration point at the airport.
Kindly watch the full interview below;
