Government to Provide All Regions With Passport Offices

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The Foreign Affairs Ministry has said plans are in place to ensure that all regions in the country have offices to serve passport applicants.

The sector Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, said the extension of services would ease the burden of some applicants who travel all the way to Accra to access their passports.

Speaking at the commissioning of a new passport office in the Eastern Region, the Minister cautioned middlemen who often extort monies from passport applicants, to desist from such acts.

“Our ministry is also taking steps to secure office spaces from the regional coordinating council in the Upper East, Upper West and the Central Regions as well as the newly-created regions for the establishment of passport application centres in their respective capitals. With this commissioning, residents in the Eastern regions would be spared of the inconveniences of travelling to Greater or the Volta region to obtain a passport,” she said.

“I also wish to caution the public to desist from engaging in any fraudulent activities which would undermine the integrity of the Ghanaian passport, such as the use of forged documents in their application, these are punishable by law.”

There are already passport offices in some regional capitals.

By: citinewsroom.com