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The UK High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin, has revealed that Ghanaians harass him on daily basis for visas. �Almost every day, someone asks me for a visa,� he told an audience Thursday in an address on corruption, at the tenth anniversary ceremony of policy Think Tank IMANI Ghana in Accra. Benjamin said the visa requests are made for ��for themselves, their spouse, child, brother, friend or neighbour and sometimes for their brother�s friend�s neighbour.� �I�m already heartily tired of always saying the same thing: namely: �That if you comply with our immigration rules, you�ll get a visa, if you don�t, you won�t.� �Knowing me or asking me for what is euphemistically called a personal meeting to lobby me won�t make a blind bit of difference,� he said. He said: �I can neither impose change nor reverse any visa decision taken by our visa experts in accordance with our rules, for a system where such adhoc decisions was possible merely on the whims of the big boss.�