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E-Gates cost $1.7m, not $240m - Ghana Immigration Service responds to 'false' claims

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  • THE PERFECT XMAS/END-OF-YR GIFT: MAKE MONEY IN 2025 WITH THIS VERY SKILL 1 year ago

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  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 1 year ago

    allah is a sick rat

  • Enoch 1 year ago

    Why won't they respond when their big me also got cut of the $240million dollars...

  • MoonGod 1 year ago

    E gates totally needless in the face of tough economic conditions. Only senseless people would behave this way. Dubai and countries with E gates are not in the lind of economic mess this useless government plunged us to in th ...
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  • DotCom 1 year ago

    They spend money without thinking about it. That’s what criminals do.

  • Apuuuuuuu!!! 1 year ago

    That useless E-gate shouldn't cost more than 200,000 dollars. Why 1.7 million dollars for that thing. Ghana politicians, can you guys stop stealing the country's money? Bawumia, stop stealing from the public. We are already p ...
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  • AGYA 1 year ago

    Odwan paa ni3

  • WHO WILL DO THIS USELESS THING 1.7MILLION DOLLARS 1 year ago

    THIS USELESS THING IS 1.7MILLION DOLLARS? EIIISH GHANA PAAA NIE

  • Koku powerthen you want to disrespec 1 year ago

    Useless? Sick ndc

  • Korbla 1 year ago

    Create, loot and share at play. During these difficult times, should our priorities be e-gates? You guys are still refusing to learn

  • Simeon London 1 year ago

    Maybe we should shut the airport then! Same people who want Ghana to be like abrokyire are the same people who complain about development. What is the best practices globally?

  • DeMarco 1 year ago

    @Simeone... W'ano tsakaaa s3 bini...!!!!! Have you paid WAEC to release our pupils exam results before you are aiming to become like "abrokyire"... ???? Kwaseato like you

  • Not issue 1 year ago

    As usual they are shifting the issue. Lying your way into power will not earn you anything

    Mahama said the egate is more expensive than the 250m cost of the airport. Yesterday they reduce to 175m, now the right information ...
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  • Amin 1 year ago

    All this long explanations of phase one to three and parts and bla bla bla still comes to 240 million. Idiots at GIS trying to justify their thievery with long words

  • E-gate 1 year ago

    @Amin you need Free SHS before it is canceled. I can see you were very poor at English composition. Please take the advantage now

  • Agyei!! 1 year ago

    Hahaha!!!

  • Kay 1 year ago

    Those with fraudulent minds always think others are stealing. Shame on you if you belong to that class.

  • Nii Ayittey 1 year ago

    Facts are facts. Thanks for dispelling the mischievous lies and propaganda circulating. Ndc should be doing better than this.

  • Koku powerthen you want to disrespec 1 year ago

    True they always create that propaganda platform so that can do same thing ndc their their president elect mr kelvin taylor and his vice captain smart

  • Michael 1 year ago

    Even that 1.7m dollars does not make sense as the cost of the e-gate

  • Bonkers 1 year ago

    They say the thing itself is 1.7 but the installation is 240 million dollars. Herrrr Ghana. People are using pen to loot because they see us as stupid.

  • Pelicles. 1 year ago

    But it makes sense when your Mahama paid $7million to have sex with Tracy Boakye and how much did you get from that deal?

  • starzo 1 year ago

    evidence? if we don't stop this stomach politics n face facts, our country is going nowhere. these politicians are amassing weather at the expense of the ordinary Ghanaian n we still support their nonsense. God save Ghana. It ...
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  • Willie 1 year ago

    If you think God will forgive for saying things which are untrue about people in the name of politics, you are joking. These are some of the reasons why some of you people face unexplained problems with no solutions and it's ...
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  • The Spear 1 year ago

    This is a far-reaching evidence you're irreversibly braindead.

  • ADU BOATENG 1 year ago

    Proverbs 6:16-19
    16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

    17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

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  • Trump Snr 1 year ago

    You go explain tayaa. Thieves

  • Bonkers 1 year ago

    Damage control. They think we're fools. You're using 240 million dollars to install something that's 1.7 million dollars. People must be shot in this country.

  • Former Dining Hall Prefect 1 year ago

    Do you think Ghana has $240 million sitting somewhere?

  • Alberto 1 year ago

    Why did it take government and immigration too long to respond to the lies before the election.

  • roja 1 year ago

    the moment they head of ORAL noor p3,they have started bringing the actual cost of things out...siafuor

  • roja 1 year ago

    heard**

  • Edward 1 year ago

    Margins is a fraudster. Even America does not have egates. You have to present yourself to immigration for clearance. Kwame Takyi must be arrested and imprisoned

  • Pelicles. 1 year ago

    If you are a human, think like a human. The fact that the US has no E-gates does not mean we shouldn't. UK, who colonized Ghana for over 200 years, lunch their drones about a month ago.

    By your warped thinking, we should w ...
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  • You are a fool 1 year ago

    Infact you are a bigger fool. If you were wise , you would know that drone services to supply medicines are not things to expect in an advance economy.it’s fools like you who get deceived by Bawumia when he says Ghana is a ...
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  • starzo 1 year ago

    no credibility with our immigration service at KIA. they are becoming beggers at the airport using dubious means to collect money from travelers. it's a shame to see our officers asking for money from both arrivals n departur ...
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  • Islam insulting person 1 year ago

    The Islam insulting animal has been set free out of mental hospital for Christmas holidays.

  • NYANSANI BA 1 year ago

    Ghana Immigration Service thanks for quickly making public details of the contract

    NDC was eagerly preparing to add more falsehoods, evil lies, to it to smear Bawumia.

  • Taptap Send One 1 year ago

    Admit it, it costs $240 million

  • Propaganda Finance Minister. What Disgrace! 1 year ago

    Nonsene! Do you control MoF budget? Do you know how much was chopped behind your back? Foolish propagada tool. The frog will die in 17 days. We shall soon see

  • Umofia 1 year ago

    $1.7m for des toys ?OMG are we serious as a nation

  • Bukyi 1 year ago

    NDC members, full of lies and propaganda.
    They have lied their way through to power and they continue to lie.
    Some Ghanaians are so gullible that whatever these NDC liars say they believe.
    Ghanaians be careful of these ...
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  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 1 year ago

    Any time this government is grabbed for corruption, they will sit back, think carefully and come out with lies. Liars, thieves, hypocrites, rapists, demons, crooks, criminals, cowards, slayers, pretenders, traitors, fools, wi ...
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  • Willie 1 year ago

    So it's $274m and not $240m. This your explanation is rather confusing you rather keep it to yourself.

  • Jkm 1 year ago

    We don't need u to tell us, we will know wen we come to power after 7th Jan

  • Shit hole 1 year ago

    You will talk true..immigration is it the first time you are hearing about the figures..naniama...wicked witchcraft humans

  • Gray Johnson 1 year ago

    Where now hypocrite

  • Afenyo supreme court cry baby 1 year ago

    High level stupidity. Is KIA the only border,? Spending so much on these toys meanwhile the other borders are under resourced and even non existent in some cases.

  • kwame niger 1 year ago

    this is neeedless walayi kids are still seating under mango tree in most part of the country, displace priorities

  • Post-Polls 1 year ago

    So why now that the elections are over? You allowed some filthy propagandists get away with their lies. I have also heard the 200000 or so ghost names on the NSP scheme was a lie. Aaaba, and NPP communicators were silent abo ...
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  • Mr Ibu 1 year ago

    Senseless. If this economic conditions prevailing in the country and the government can't even service it's national debt is the best way to spend our scarce resources? Apart from kotoka majority of people coming to Ghana thr ...
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  • OZYMANDIAS 1 year ago

    Trust the NDC and their lies and propaganda to your own detriment and stupidity. A party established in blood, lies, buga buga and propaganda is not worth fighting for. How many of their supporters and members in the current ...
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  • Citizen Watch 1 year ago

    They were quiet all this while until they saw the ORAL SQUAD. They go talk true.

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  • Star from the north 1 year ago

    All the people who are fleecing our country with inflated contracts such as this will and their supporters die and burn in hell fire. If this is not stopped, they can even do E gates in the Kumasi and Tamale airports the cost ...
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  • Akua 1 year ago

    EIIH IMMIGRATION MAKING POLITICAL STATEMENT !! UNPROFESSIONAL ! IT WAS FOR MINISTER OF INTERIOR TO RESPOND . THESE OFFICERS NEED FREE SHS

  • Ghanaweb 1 year ago

    NDC and lies

  • Kofi 1 year ago

    Bawumia need to be arrested. Ah you mean people are crying complaining and you're using money on unnecessary things. This is education without knowledge

  • Paluta 1 year ago

    GIS now admitting the total cost including taxes for the two phase is $274 million .more than the false $240 million speculating...why president's brother in law was giving tax exemption to build his hotel ....foreign mining ...
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  • Truth stands 1 year ago

    The naysayers and anti development activists are at it again quoting outrageous figures to discredit the E-gate at the airport. Some are saying it is not necessary. Really?
    Moving the country to a higher pedestal will come a ...
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  • kojo juaboso 1 year ago

    Where were the Ghana Immigration Office speaker when the NDC used that falsehood to win the 2024 election.
    Ghana will suffer for our Believe in falsehoods and our incompetent government officers.

  • ABREWA 1 year ago

    NDC and dirty politics. Instead of concentrating on how they are going to fulfill their myopic election promises, they are rather on rampage.
    Ghana is in big trouble.

  • Owusu Agyei, Suhum 5 months ago

    And the immigration thinks that is right. Do they know what 1.7m usd can do in a country like the USA? You people sit in ghana and mention huge money like it's cheap to get. This amount is still too much for these electronic ...
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