Ghana now uses sniffer dogs for detecting suspected narcotics due to dysfunctional detective scanners at airport-Minister
Alhaji Mubarak Mohammed Muntaka, the Minister of the Interior, says Ghana, in the interim, is using sniffer dogs to detect suspected narcotic substances at the airport and other key entry points due to broken down body and baggage scanners.
The Ministry, he said, had made dedicated budgetary provision to procure new modern and sophisticated body and baggage scanners, instead of repairing the broken-down ones.
He explained the decision to acquire new body and baggage scanners, he explained, was because of cost benefit analysis conducted by the Ministry and technical challenges encountered in repairing the broken-down scanners at the airport.
The Interior Minister made this known on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday when responding to an urgent question posed by John...