"Traders await\u00a0border reopening by Ghana\u2019s neighbours to resume commercially meaningful\u00a0 intra-africa trade"

" \n Traders await\u00a0border reopening by Ghana\u2019s neighbours to resume commercially meaningful\u00a0 intra-africa trade \n \n\n \n Ghana\u2019s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced the reopening of Ghana\u2019s land borders to people traffic from Monday 28 th , March after almost two-years of shutdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. \n \n\n \n Although residents and state agencies operating in border towns are excited about the news, they have also recounted the harsh impact of the closed borders on their revenues and livelihoods. \n \n\n \n According to the Assistant Commissioner Fred Duodo, Ghana Immigration Service\u2019s Sector Commander for Aflao, the shutdown of the borders has taken a huge toll on the Service\u2019s revenue mobilization efforts. \n \n\n \n \u201cThe revenue we generate from processing visas on arrival, penalties for overstays and others go to government but the Service has a percentage but now that those monies have stopped coming in, we can\u2019t have our expected revenue,\u201d he told Single African Market .\u00a0 \n \n\n \n He said even though Ghana has reopened its borders, it is required of the Togolese government to also open its land borders to bring life to normalcy. \n \n\n \n \u201cWe pray and hope that the Togo side will also be opened to human movement; if they don\u2019t do that then travellers cannot cross to Ghana as expected,\u201d he added. \n \n\n \n He also assured of the Service\u2019s readiness and commitment to secure the country\u2019s land borders to ensure that people do not take advantage of the reopened borders to come and cause mayhem. \n \n\n \n AC Duodo indicated that they have enough officers to man the main borders: \u201cWe have enough men on the ground assigned to the main borders.\u201d \n \n\n \n Residents of Aflao say the impact of the border reopening on commercial activities will be witnessed when the Togolese border is also opened to commuters. \n \n\n \n Meanwhile Prof. Paul Nugent, Professor of African History at the University of Edinburgh has argued that the region should have reopened its borders quite earlier and attributed the delay to sheer inertia. \n \n\n \n \u201cIt was a kind of collective decision to close the borders and so you\u2019ll need everyone to agree to reopen which was going to be a long and complicated process,\u201d he said. \n \n\n \n He was also of the view that African government were satisfied with the movement of critical or essential goods through their sea ports and were not much concerned about physical movement of people due to the deadly pandemic. \n "

"Traders await\u00a0border reopening by Ghana\u2019s neighbours to resume commercially meaningful\u00a0 intra-africa trade"

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