Immigration Service adopts enhance checks

Accra, Sept. 4, GNA - The Ghana Immigration Service has launched new measures, including an advanced passenger processing system to prevent fraudsters and other criminals from entering the country. The Service is also profiling travelers as part of the new measures, according to a release signed by Ms Elizabeth Baffoe, Officer in charge of Immigration at the Kotoka International Airport. She said it had come to the notice of her outfit some fraudsters and other undesirable people, many of whom are non-Ghanaians, visited the country illegally under the guise of working for member states and governments in the region, or as businessmen.

They sometimes arrived with claims of having in their care unprecedented sums of wealth from a deceased relative of a Ghanaian and in the course of their stay lure their victims to part with large sums of money, the release said.

The statement said in the Service had to increase security in order to check these fraudsters, whose activities could draw back Ghana's business drive.

It said while it was beneficial to remove artificial barriers from the frontiers of member countries of ECOWAS to enhance free movement, it was also important to bolster the internal security of individual states.