Pillar 13, a crossing point along the Ghana-Togo Border near Aflao, is eligible for development into an immigration checkpoint due to the increasing volume of human traffic in the area.

A source close to the border security told the Ghana News Agency that a committee set up by the Volta Region Security Committee (RESEC) had recommended that the crossing point be upgraded.

"Locating the Diamond Cement Factory at Akpokploe, near the Pillar has led to the improvement of the access road and this has generated brisk cross-border activities in the area," the source said.

Residential accommodation is also developing fast in the area that had hitherto been sparsely populated.

Togolese, who operate motorbike taxis, are also doing brisk business by conveying people from the crossing point to Lome and back.

A survey conducted by the Ghana Immigration Service indicated that an average of 500 travellers use the point to avoid the cumbersome formalities at the main border at Aflao.

At the moment there is a skeleton staff of Ghanaian and Togolese security personnel manning the point.