"Travellers from Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Yemen and Cuba will be among those facing body pat-down searches and carry-on baggage checks. It follows an alleged attempt to blow up a plane on Christmas Day.
Abdulmutallab, 23, was granted a two-week stay in Ghana as any other West African citizen when he arrived before continuing to Nigeria.
Under the ECOWAS protocol, West African citizens with valid documents can spend up to 90 days in a member country without resident permit and Mr Agyening-Boateng said Ghana was unaware of any security alert on Abdulmutallab when he arrived in Ghana.
"He got in and was processed by the immigration as any other ECOWAS citizen because we had no knowledge of any security alert on him."
He said Abdulmutallab arrived in Ghana on December 9 at 0320 GMT on an Ethiopian Airline flight from Dubai via Addis Ababa and left on December 24 for Lagos, Nigeria at 1706 GMT.
On arrival in Accra, Abdulmutallab's immigration form indicated that his overseas address was Dubai, he added.
Agyenim-Boateng said while in Ghana, he checked into a hotel at Dzorwulu in Accra and throughout his stay, he did nothing to create suspicion of any sort."
Monday, January 4, 2010
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