Aflao (Volta Region) 05 July 2002- The arrival and departure halls of the Ghana-Togo border at Aflao would be modified as part of a beautification exercise at the border. Mr Kow Amissah-Koomson, Assistant Commissioner of the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) at Aflao, told the Ghana News Agency that designs were ready for the construction of an overhead concrete canopy to connect the arrival hall with the last check-point.

A concrete wall has been constructed in place a wooden fence that hitherto demarcated the departure hall from the open space. Mr Amissah-Koomson said coconut seedlings were being planted along the beach where some shanty structures were recently demolished. He said the objective of a new wooden fence wall, built along the beach from the STC-VANEF bus terminal to the departure hall, was to regularise the movement of people.

Other projects that Mr Amissah-Koomson listed as going on were the demarcation of the diplomatic car park, painting of the residential blocks of CEPS personnel and removal of solid waste. He said the exercise was being undertaken by CEPS to facelift the border to suit its gateway status.

Mr Amissah-Koomson said the exercise was not part of the major changes planned tobe undertaken by government and that the current facelift was being funded through levies of 10,000 cedis on haulage vehicles which used the frontier. He appealed to the government to complete the VIP lounge for the hosting of dignitaries, who passed through the frontier.