The two edge knife of Togochale Immigration Office
Do the higher officials of Ethiopian Immigration Authority aware about what is going in Togochale Immigration Office? Or is there a signed contract agreement between some higher Immigration officers and the peripheral stuff in Togochale Immigration office? Or the regulations and policies governing Togochale Immigration Office are different from that of Ethiopian Immigration Authorities?
The establishment of Togochale Immigration Office was a good attempt and one step forward to the general security and economic development of the country, because of the nature and strategic location of Togochale town.
Geographically Togochale town locates at the border point of the eastern part of Ethiopia to the Somaliland. Administratively it is under Aw-barre district of Jijiga zone of the Somali Regional State.
Because of its importance to the general economic development of the country and the high ambition of Ethiopian government to use Berbera port of Somaliland. The Ethiopian Federal government construct a first grade 700KMs asphalt road from Addis ababa to Togochale and established all it’s necessary and supportive public institutions including.
1- Commercial Bank of Ethiopia.
2- Ethiopian Customs Authority.
3- Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation.
4- Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation.
5- Ethiopian Immigration Authority and others.
In addition to that many other private enterprises established in Togochale town including, Wogagen, Awash and NIB international Banks.
All these public and private institutions are functioning and doing their desired goals. Unfortunately, Togochale Immigration Office is working reversely to its desired goal. The highly prevailing corruption reaches a non-reversible level. According to a legal traveler (tourist) from Somalia – a 50 birr of Ethiopian money is better and more valuable than a legally issued visa or a locally registered Ethiopian I. D. card- no problem where ever you are from and whatever you are doing. If you have some amount of money in your pocket you can bass Togochale Immigration checkpoint, rather than considering the national security of the country and the global terrorist issues.
In order to fulfill their (Togochale Immigration stuff) personal interest, there is a high prograsy which discourages the legal Ethiopian Immigration procedures and encourages the illegal human traffics.
Finally, we (Ethiopian citizens) implore from the high rank Ethiopian government officials including the Prime Minister to flow up what is going in Togochale Immigration Office and immediately respond the public severing in that office.
With the best regards
Abdurashid Ali Hussein
Dhalawliyo1@hotmail.com