E-Gates cost USD 1.7m not USD 240m – Ghana Immigration Service

The Ghana Immigration Service has denied media reports that the newly installed E-Gates at the Kotoka International Airport cost Usd240m.

A statement from the Service noted that the gates rather cost USD1.7m less than 1 percent of the stated cost.

This issue of the cost if the gates attracted national headlines after NDC Candidate in the just ended presidential election, John Mahama, said the gates cost a whooping USD 240m.

But the GIS statement explained that the E Gates at the Kotoka International Airport formed part of a broader integrated border management system at all the nation’s entry points known as the Border 360.

“The system seeks to fully automate passenger processing and data management at all the forty-eight (48) approved entry/exit points to Ghana and other operational commands. The new system seeks to address challenges with sovereignty, interoperability, and other inadequacies associated with the existing systems installed at twelve (12) approved borders,” the statement added.