Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Mohammed Tijani, has revealed more than 60,000 Ghanaian passports which are ready for collection are currently battling with dust at the Passport Office because their owners cannot be traced.
The passport office has blamed the problem on the activities of some ‘Goro Boys’ (middle men) and the owners not being interested in the passports any longer.
Speaking on Accra FM, He explained “You will be given a date to come for your passport and within 21 days you must go and find whether your passport is ready or not. A lot of people have gone through the system and haven’t gone back for their passports. People are not able to claim their passports, we have over 60,000 that have not been claimed; they are there.â€
The deputy Minister also stated that when he got to the Passport Office, he undertook a random sampling, picked passports, and contacted the respective owners and to his surprise, the people declined filling any forms for Passports.
Mr Tijani also disclosed that passport applicants living in Volta, Greater Accra, Ashanti, Western, Brong Ahafo and Northern regions can now access passport services at regional offices, adding that services would soon be extended to the other four regions: Central, Eastern, Upper East and Upper West.
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