IOM supports GIS with equipment
December 14, 2020 Mr Kofi Wilmot of EU-IOM (left ) and Mr Asuah Takyi (second from left) inspecting the items Photo Samuel Opare Lartey
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has donated Awareness Raising Equipment to the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) to enhance education on safe migration in the country.
Items received included professional microphone system, audio mixer, loudspeaker, projection screen, generator, handheld power megaphone, photo-copy machine, torchlight and Sony sound recorder among others.
The donation was funded by the European Union (EU) Emergency Trust Fund for Africa through the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration.
International Organisation for Migration supports Ghana Immigration Service with equipment
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has donated Awareness Raising Equipment to the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) to enhance education on safe migration in the country.
Items received included professional microphone system, audio mixer, loudspeaker, projection screen, generator, handheld power megaphone, photo-copy machine, torchlight and Sony sound recorder among others.
The donation was funded by the European Union (EU) Emergency Trust Fund for Africa through the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration.
The Chief of Mission at the IOM, Abibatou Wane, explained that the donation was done to aid the campaign on the awareness creation of irregular movements to protect and save migrants’ lives while strengthening migration governance along the Central Mediterranean migration route.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, has been elected the Eighth President of Ghana’s Fourth Republic.
Mrs Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission who is also the Returning Officer for the presidential elections declared Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President-Elect, at a press briefing on Wednesday.
She said at the end of the polls President Akufo-Addo secured 6,730,413 representing 51.59 per cent of the total vote cast which is 13, 434574 with 79 percent turnout.
President Akufo-Addo’s main challenger, Former president John Dramani Mahama, of the National Democratic Congress, polled 6,214,889 representing 47.366 per cent of the total vote cast.