The German Federal Police and the Ghana Immigration Service commissions newly built vehicle maintenance workshop in Tamale.

The Northern Regional Minister, Alhassan Shani Shaibu, has urged the Ghana Immigration Service to put up a robust operation and maintenance plan that will sustain the newly built vehicle maintenance workshop in Tamale. This vehicle maintenance workshop is the first of its kind in the Northern Region.

The edifice which was put up by the German Federal Police and the German government will save the Ghana Immigration Service from sending their broken down vehicles to other maintenance shops.

He urged the service not to disappoint since it cost the German tax payer a hug sum of savings and investment. He made this known during the commissioning and handing over of the Ghana Immigration Service Vehicle Maintenance Workshop here in Tamale.

Mrs. Sivine Jansen, Deputy Head of Mission – German Embassy, expresses delight at the successful collaboration between the Ghana Immigration service and the German Federal Police.

She said in 2021, the joint-planning for the project began to support the Ghana immigration service, and today marks a millstone in this process. She added that the benefits of collaborating at this level are numerous and far reaching.

She assured of strengthened bilateral relations, friendship and mutual understanding between both countries.

The Deputy Comptroller General of Immigration – in charge of Finance and Administration, Mr Isaac Owusu Mensah, added that one of the interventions under the 2018-2022 strategic plan of the Ghana Immigration Service was a construction of a garage for the maintenance and repairs of motor vehicles and motor bikes in Tamale to support the deployment of vehicles and motorbikes by the service to areas of northern borders with Burkina Faso, Togo and La Cote D’Ivoire.

Thanks to the commissioning of the facility, vehicles and motorbikes for the service in the Northern region and its connecting regions will be attended to in a very swift manner.

Dr. P.P.D. Asima, Deputy Commissioner of Immigration, Northern Regional Commander says the workshop will help increase the capacity of the service to provide maintenance and specialised care to vehicles.

Source:Fiilafmonline/Issahaku Walkiyatu