NTU TA team visits the Joint Border Posts under the Transport Facilitation Project II

26th of March, 2021

The visited Joint Border Posts are located at Noepe Akanu (Togo and Ghana) and Seme-Krake (Benin and Abuja).

The Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS Commission) and NTU International (TFP II implementing partner for EUD-ECOWAS) visited the JBPs of Seme-Krake and Noepe -Akanu from the 18^th of March until the 22^nd of March as part of the closure of the 10^th EDF transport Facilitation project (TFP II). The construction, equipment (including furniture, ICT equipment, security scanners, freight scanners and weighbridges) and the operationalization of the two JBPs were founded by the European Union, under the TPFII project. The purpose of the mission was to verify the functionality of the equipment, as well as progress of the civil works contracts for the protection of the body and baggage scanners at the two JBPs.

During the meetings with the JBP officials, the Base Commander of Noepe-Akanu JBP, Mr. Ama said that “a lot of positive action was undertaken during this project, however this must be continued” in order to sustain the well-functioning of the JBPs. Mr, B.M. Jibo, Command Custom Controller for the Seme-Krake JBP also iterated that “great actions have been taken during the current construction of the common pedestrian passage and cargo scanner, but there will also be necessary to put in place strategies for the continuity of actions linked to this project”.