Tumu, (U/WR) Jan. 28, GNA – Ibn Yussif Duranah Abdul Mumin Seidu, the Upper West Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Immigration Service, says the coup in Burkina-Faso had not affected business in border communities in the Upper West Region.
He said, “So far there is no evidence to show that there is any kind of movement as a result of the coup in Burkina-Faso. No fleeing of persons had been witnessed and persons on the borderline continue to go about their normal activities.”
He told the GNA in Tumu in the Sissala East Municipality that the office was keenly monitoring the situation and that security in the border communities was very tight and would not allow people into the country due to the border closure directive by the president.
Mr Duranah Abdul Mumin Seidu said security was a shared responsibility and expressed hope that all border residents would collaborate effectively with the Ghana Immigration Service and other security officials to ward off any kind of problem that may arise to ensure the full protection of the borders.
He said Immigration officials always advise those living within the borderline to report suspicious characters to the security patrol teams.
He indicated that since 2019 the government had supported the service in ways that had been enhancing effective and efficient ways of securing the borders and that had not changed and that the service could confidently say that border security was unperturbed and everything was going on normally.
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