Ghana and Togo are set to create a joint border post at Mepe in the Volta Region.
The post will be manned by officials of both nations who will conduct their operations together.
According to Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Hanna Tetteh, the aim for creating the joint border post is to ease trade and movement across the border.
[contextly_sidebar id=”yJ2sAxieEAOv00VdnKtHZ8UPfUROdsIg”]“We’ve created, in Ghana and Togo, a new joint border post at Mepe which we are in the process of operationalizing in the course of this year. The initiative is supposed to make it easier for people to be able to move and trade across our borders and to ensure that they go through the process of being checked once because the officials of the respective member states will do the checking together,” she said.
“This is being done with the view to making trade and movement between citizens of our member states much easier and much faster than has been the case before.”
Hanna Tetteh also told Citi News that the joint border post at Mepe is the first of three that will be on Ghana’s borders with its three immediate neighbours.
“The joint border post at Mepe is the first of three of such joint border posts that are going to be created across the country. We want to have a similar post at Paga and another at Elubo.”
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By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong/citifmonline.com/Ghana