The Greater Accra Regional passport office at Ridge has been shut down to the public.
Officials of the passport office have explained that an electrical fault which is disrupting work at the facility and has affected the main printers used to print the passports is the cause of the closure.
However, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Habib Tijani, has announced that the passport office is likely to open to the public on Friday, 2nd March 2018.
“When we got an impression of what happened, an inspection was done and we are quickly working on it. Hopefully, by Friday, everything will be restored because currently, we are working on the wiring, at the same time we are working on the fire system. We have the Ghana National Fire Service who are working on the fire system,†Tijani said in a radio interview.
Meanwhile, government has given an assurance it will renovate the passport office to streamline the acquisition of passports.