THE Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) and the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) in the Northern Region have embarked on a joint exercise at strategic locations to halt the influx of arms and activities of alien herdsmen in the area.
The measure by the two institutions is to help curb the proliferation of arms in the region against the backdrop of recent disturbances in Bawku.
The two sector commanders, Messrs Ernest Frimpong-Nuamah and Baba Salami of CEPS and the GIS respectively, made this known in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Tamale.
They hinted that apart from the border points, some of the checkpoints would be mounted on the Tamale-Bolgatanga road.
“I have talked to my men to be extra vigilant at the borders in order for us to maintain peaceful elections; we call on the public to volunteer information on the activities of suspicious characters in the respective communities,” the CEPS commander further stressed.
The GIS commander for his part indicated that “we are sniffing around to see whether some foreigners would cause havoc during and after the elections; we are gearing up for the elections seriously”.
“We are currently handicapped in our operations, since our informants are not feeding us with adequate information to enable us nip in the bud the influx of uncustomed vehicles for instance,” he pointed out.
He indicated that some people hid behind the Temporary Importation Regime (TIR) of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to illegally change foreign number plates on their vehicles to Ghanaian vehicle numbers.
“Generally, the atmosphere is not conducive for us to embark on a massive operation; we would wait for the appropriate time and strike,” he further indicated.
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