Heavy Human Traffic At Aflao Border ...As Thousands Troop In To Vote

Large numbers of Ghanaians sojourning in Togo, Benin and Nigeria have started arriving in Aflao, en-route their hometowns to participate in the Friday December 7 General Elections. Others were said to be coming by sea to places mainly in the Greater Accra Region. Ghana border officials confirmed the arrivals to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Wednesday. Some of the home-comers told the GNA at the Ghana Private Road Transport Union terminal that they were arriving in good time, in case the Togolese authorities decide to close their side of the frontier, as happened in the 2008 elections, resulting in them not being able to vote.

They said the move was also to avoid harassment from both the Togolese and Ghanaian frontier officials, who in 2008 exploited their late arrivals. Some of the home-comers, mainly traders, shoe shine boys, with majority of them being fishermen and fishmongers, said they were heading for the Greater Accra, Volta, Central, Eastern and Western and Brong-Ahafo regions. continued