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Bawumia storms Passport office

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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (INVISIBLE FORCE) 7 years ago

    ###SOURCE: ADOMONLINE---------- The Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organizer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has likened those kicking against free Senior High School policy to 'witches and wizards'. Just like those with ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    please spell governance

  • Adanu 7 years ago

    I swear to God almighty I love this man.He is the reason I even started considering Akuffo Addo.He speaks plainly whithout insults or provocations and he acts with intent.He is like President Kufour,Rawlings and Dr.Nduom roll ...
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  • Maka a maka 7 years ago

    Dr Bawumia is the next President of the Republic.

  • George 7 years ago

    they are corrupt people and lazy the govt should suck them all and re-hire other qualified workers to replace them

  • Mensa 7 years ago

    and all Ghana with you all passport office workers should lose their jobs and be replaced by real hard working folks

  • Sigma, London 7 years ago

    If a Government wants to work it will. There were many things the past NDC government could do but... How much does it cost by visiting sensitive institutions unannounced but the impact is great? You are the next president. H ...
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  • ASEM BIREBA 7 years ago

    In fact this guy is very tough & really working like a horse chase. Serious like a doctor in the theater operating. I still cant remember that vice of Mahama at all. He was like ice cream in his appartment waiting to build a ...
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  • Lori 7 years ago

    What is the Deputy Vice doing that President Mills did not do?

  • Whats app(0243070622) 7 years ago

    Are you looking for business opportunity that will change your life for good?

  • Kofi 7 years ago

    This Bawumina is too useless the low
    I .Q Akyem mafia have dumb him and he is now inspecting department what
    a shame.The old Ugly dwarf is in London undergoing his cancer treatment.

  • kofi Friday 7 years ago

    Kofi or what ever your name is. Why cant u learn to apreciate something for just a moment. What the vice president is doing now is awesome. Just show some like if u cant then say nothing. Please.

  • Kufusan1_1 7 years ago

    Why waste your valuable time on this miscreant. Nana's win go pain am till he quenches. Tweea!!!

  • Ama. 7 years ago

    Kofi, it's either you have no brains or you are simply jealous, or both.

  • Kofi 7 years ago

    You idiot jealous about what? Useless, and hopeless Bawumina with his smelling prostitute Fulani woman they were use by the dead old Ugly dwarf and his gangsters

  • SIMPLICITY 7 years ago

    I am not sure which party you belong, but let us work together and build Ghana.

  • jim 7 years ago

    Mr vip, tour well,because if you fail, you will go dead in Ghana like ???? nobody.

  • kofi 7 years ago

    KUDOS

  • Joyce 7 years ago

    Filthy offices filthy compound

  • Isaidit 7 years ago

    He reminds me of the years when Rawlings was able to inspire the nation .This is truely an inspiring and dynamic leader.NDC BEWARE!We are not going to allow you to tear him down.

  • Ghanaianpoliticians 7 years ago

    Hossana, Hossana today. Crucify him, Crucify him tomorrow. By the manner Ghanaians insult Rawlings, I'm surprised someone had somethings good to say about him. Now Bawumia is being likened to Rawlings until the shout 'Crucif ...
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  • SAROUK MISSILE/NIMA 7 years ago

    THIS IS THE KIND OF LEADERSHIP GHANAIANS WANTED. THIS BAWUMIAS AND NANAS ARE GOD SEND. LOOK HOW HE MONITORS THE ADMINISTRATIVE, NOMORE GORO BOYS, NOMORE FAST LANES.

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    any fool can storm

  • Isaidit 7 years ago

    If any fool could storm you would have been a Tsunami and your father owuld be in a class with no title.

  • slyster 7 years ago

    I wish you whatever you wish yourself!

  • Ama. 7 years ago

    Zoobie Aponkye, get a life.

  • Bempah 7 years ago

    it's true my friend ... any fool can tour. .. the cedi he preached about whilst in opposition is depreciating with speed.. He should talk again... u think governance is talk talk?

  • hjs 7 years ago

    you are the man.Ghanaians love you

  • solution 7 years ago

    Too much corruption in getting a Ghanaian passport these days.
    Visiting is one step,
    Action to enable poor Ghanaian get their passport in time without paying bribes and also removing middle men is key

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    empty textbook guy

  • Isaidit 7 years ago

    At first you said NPP dropped the other candidate because he was a Northerner then they replaced him with Bawumia.You said he was jsut a token Northerner and it turned out he was an indispensible part of the leadership.You sa ...
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  • Nye Bro 7 years ago

    Solution, I perfectly agree... The late President Mills did same but never took any serious action. It's really a nightmare going through the process of acquiring or renewing a Ghanaian passport, especially in Accra...It is j ...
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  • kwame 7 years ago

    Dats true

  • Nana Adom Gyamfi, USA 7 years ago

    I am glad you are beginning to see the light of day, the convulsion that hit you after the election of Nana & Bawumia has abated, you can now sit on the sidelines and watch wonderful things happen to mother Ghana, my only adv ...
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  • nimdee2k 7 years ago

    Dude - Criticize after 6 months. This is their 3rd month in office. If not action is taking to alleviate our pain then we must launch a full assault on this visit. I'm going to give them 6 months to reduce corruption in sta ...
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  • Julius 7 years ago

    You are damn right.however he first of all has to visit to see the situation on the ground and while at it,his aides take note.you will definitely see the results of the note-taking not next year but this very year.the man is ...
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  • Nkwarehene 7 years ago

    The most corrupted institutions in Ghana behind the police force are the DVLA, and the passport office.

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    show off

  • ONAAPO 7 years ago

    DOCTOR, WE LOVE YOUR SHOW OFF.GOD BLESS YOU.THIS IS HOW THINGS GET DONE.

  • MERCY 7 years ago

    I believe the show off will put other institutions alert and work well is far better than a vice who sit in the office and sleep

  • slyster 7 years ago

    You need your head examined.

  • asunafo 7 years ago

    Don't forget Ports and Harbours Authority

  • Truth 7 years ago

    IS THAT YOUR JOB DESCRIPTION? OR YOU HAVE NOTHING TO DO AS VICE PRESIDENT?

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    empty competence, textbook style...awful

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    grade textbook economit

  • Wise Man 7 years ago

    Kwssia, you see you can't even write economist and you are insulting. Cheap boy.....hahaaaaa go back to school

  • kujo 7 years ago

    total competence and ready to work. that is the app government . they are truly willing to change ghana for the better

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    just by showing up...sad

  • ONAAPO 7 years ago

    THAT IS HOW IS DONE IN THE DEVELOP COUNTRIES.DOCTOR KEEP SHOWING UP.

  • Asante,Yaw. 7 years ago

    You cannot keep showing up . As soon as you leave they start laughing at you. Create more passport offices all around the country and all the confusion stops. This is not competence. It is a useless waste of time. We had al ...
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  • TIME WILL TELL 7 years ago

    MONTHS MONITORING SHOWMANSHIP BUT RATHER CONTINUING CHECK EVERYWHERE. THANK YOU FOR THE GOOD WORK, WE LOVE YOU

  • Dani 7 years ago

    First class governance must start from this office. Another place to visit is DVLA office and instill a form of flow chart as to what to happen if anyone need a driving licence and not whom you know bases

  • TIME WILL TELL 7 years ago

    5 DAYS BUT NDC IS MAKING IT TO LOOK LIKE HE IS IN POWER FOR 8 SOLID YEARS LIKE INCOMPETENT THIEF MAHAMA. THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT DR. BAWUMIA, GOD BLESS YOU ALL

  • Ama 7 years ago

    Bravo Alhaji !! Viva NPP.

  • KOOMSON 7 years ago

    THESE SUPRISE VISIT IS NEEDLESS. GOVERNMENT SHOULD BUILD PASSPORT OFFICE IN EVERY REGIONAL CAPITAL TO AVOID ALL THESE UNNECESSARY CONGESTION. IF YOU COME TO EUROPE ,THERE ARE ABOUT FOUR PASSPORT OFFICE IN HAMBURG ALONE IN G ...
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  • Blackus 7 years ago

    when was thevlast time you even bought a foot ball for your former sxgool team?..Out there in the state dont people help in their own divers ways in building the nation,you are there saying visiting the place is not enough... ...
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  • GANDALF 7 years ago

    THAT PASSPORT OFFICE IS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT OFFICES IN GHANA. YOU SEE VERY YOUNG STAFF WHO DON'T EVEN HAVE FIRST DEGREES RIDING FANTASTIC CARS AND BUILDING PLUSH MANSIONS JUST BECAUSE THEY WORK THERE AND HAVE TURNED IT IN ...
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  • Concern citizen 7 years ago

    good leadership

  • Gbewaa 7 years ago

    Clueless VP with no spine to sit down n reverse the currency.

    Oh Osafo Marfo is the de facto VP

  • Ama 7 years ago

    Sorry you are no more getting free T-shirts and money for kenkey and kyenam thus you are crazy, your brain is not functionin. Thank God basic education is going to be free, go to school.

  • lets move forward 7 years ago

    Government should privatize passport office. This will be free of corruption. The staff of foreign affairs has made passport office their gold mine where even cleaners there engage in passport corruption.

  • A Concerned Somebody. 7 years ago

    I would have love it if he had gone there disguised as an ordinary applicant. That is the only way he can get the real picture on the ground. All the same, I hope this visit brings out something positive.

  • Marcol 7 years ago

    This will never bring any change in the work line of them. tell us that after your visit henceforth ghanaian can obtain their passports within a month. else your visit is just a show off.

  • Kofi_Boga 7 years ago

    MY PRAYER IS FOR THESE VP VISITS TO YIELD POSITIVE RESULTS. THERE IS CORRUPTION IN EVERY INSTITUTION IN GHANA AND IT IS SHAMEFUL.

  • Kontonkyi 7 years ago

    Dr. Mills stormed the Ports! Anyone remembers that? Hahahahaa, Ghanaians are funny but always hopeful when a leader "storms".

  • obi 7 years ago

    vp need to give them time to give passports pls

  • Dickson 7 years ago

    He should sit down and arrest free fall of the cedi and Concentrate on how to restore in full the allowances of the training colleges and nursing training and payments of all contractors within the hundred days he promised th ...
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  • Kontonkyi 7 years ago

    Good reminder.

  • JF 7 years ago

    What did you do for 8 YEARS!!!. Useless party. Listen to your executive. Now we know who is corrupt. coming from your won foot soldiers.

  • Kontonkyi 7 years ago

    Why storming?

  • TULA 7 years ago

    BRAVO DR BAWUMIA !!!!!!; GET HOLD OF THE CIVIL SERVICE THEY ARE THE BANE OF GHANA'S TROUBLES TODAY ; ONCE THE CIVIL SERVICE IS UNDER CONTROL GHANA WILL COME REAL GOOD ; THEIR CHIEF DIIREC TORS ARE ALL NDC KROOKS AND MUST BE B ...
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  • koffi parker 7 years ago

    as if any good can come out of this he is just there to make sure corruption thrives within the NPP takeover. corruption in the passport office will flourish from one corrupt government to another

  • Akrika 7 years ago

    If u like come to tails n details n nobody cares mr .....?

  • Ghana 7 years ago

    NPP Team is working. Thank God for Nana and Bawumia. Ghana is moving forward.

  • Mary 7 years ago

    He is there to make sure the drugs dealer's who have been given money's to the terrorist
    Npp party to get their passports to carried on with their business in Europe

  • Koo Nimo 7 years ago

    What's the purpose and does a whole VP get paid for such unnecessary and time-wasting cheap pub?

  • Koo Nimo 7 years ago

    Which developed country please?

  • O.K 7 years ago

    This guy Bawumia doesn't has anything doing at the office since Osafo Manfo is doing his job so he is just going round advertising himself.Oh what a pity a vice president without portfolio.He should visit all the toilets and ...
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  • Truth 7 years ago

    Only Ghana people think passport is like visa to heaven. They are not aware that after having a passport you a ticket before you can travel. Passport also can use as national ID. So why should someone pay bribe before getti ...
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  • King SA 7 years ago

    Good move. Ghana must work again

  • Buffoon investigators of Boston 7 years ago

    We can get the state institutions working again. Surprise visits such as this shows that someone at the top is watching. This is one sep in the right direction. Tiger Eye type of testing to ensure government employees are in ...
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  • Isaac 7 years ago

    Nothing is there for him to do in office Osarfo Marfo has taken his job if he did not go round people will forget about him

  • PeeVee 7 years ago

    Kudos vice pee, all the police personnel at the passport office are more goro than even so called goroboys. They are there doing their own business. Remove them now they even scare some applicants. That place is a public plac ...
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  • obtt 7 years ago

    ?ecentralisation of the institution is long overdue. This will create jobs for citizens and eradicate bribery. Every Ghanaian is legally entitled to a travel document. So every region must have a branch. Period

  • taabea 7 years ago

    Vise president Bawumia is the man to watch. he really doing a good job for mother Ghana kudos!!!

  • JOHN 7 years ago

    SO HOW MANY SENSIBLE PEOPLE ARE IN NPP. THESE FOOLS ALWAYS PRAISE KAPOWEPOWE AND THIS IDIOT BAWUMIA. DOES IT MEAN THAT HE HAS NO TRUST IN THE MINISTER INCHARGE?

  • Kwasi USA 7 years ago

    Ghana is mess because of people u.

  • Martin 7 years ago

    The vice president is engaging in theatrics with these unannounced visits of his. He is not going to solve the passport office's systemic problems by just showing up and speaking with the staff. He knows what the problems fac ...
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  • Mohammed 7 years ago

    Until we the people change our attitude towards where ever we find ourselves it will be extremely difficult for any leader to create the needed development in the country. As Ghanaians, we are not discipline. We are too corru ...
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  • Eldine Africanos 7 years ago

    Nothing will change. Money talks and loudly at Passport Office. Dr. Bawumia can't do anything about it. Actually the entire civil service is incurably corrupt and that is the way it had always been.

  • KWAME 7 years ago

    i have no doubt that this visit will change the face of passport acquisition in Ghana

  • Isaac Appiah-Kubi - US 7 years ago

    Did the visit bring the desired changes Ghanaians are hoping for or was it just another wasteful show-manship to declare his status as the Vice President of Ghana? According to his rhetorical campaign message he was coming as ...
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  • pap dee 7 years ago

    I love Akuffo Addo and wanted him as President because of his vast experience, but I voted most especially because of the God sent prophet,Dr mahamudu Bawumia.NDC hears his name then they suffer kpokpogbligbli.Bawumia the nex ...
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  • Abongo Boy 7 years ago

    Brilliant Bawumia considered it is solved

  • Akoo 7 years ago

    Visiting these places is not a big deal but changing the situation is the problem. Bawumia can do anything.

  • Kwasi USA 7 years ago

    Good job mr vice president.keep it up pls don't stop the culture of corruption in the country has become epidemic.it can't continue like this.god bless u mr vice president

  • Keane 7 years ago

    Did he have to pay the criminaks that work there to get an appointment?

  • Gyata 1 7 years ago

    Atta mills do dis one pass u

  • Kwadwo Denver 7 years ago

    Not just visit. We want to see changes after your visit.

  • Daniel Baah. 7 years ago

    They always claim there is no teller at passport office for we to pay any money to them yet still they take hundreds and thousands of cedis for one to get himself or herself a passport what we should do as a nation is that w ...
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  • ROGUE LAWYER 7 years ago

    this is the office that give national identity to its citizens.
    serving the people under tents ?
    that alone speak volume how stupid and fools we are as a country of leaders who even can use their wisdom to organise things i ...
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  • marcusgyamerah1212@gmail.com 7 years ago

    And london going 2 renew urpassport cost is too much why 180pounds

  • NANA SARFOWAA 7 years ago

    Bawumia after his position as a vice president taken over by Osafo Marfo his only job is to be vice the national inspectorates officer popularly known as "SAMANSAMAN "
    Congratulations for your new role.
    When are you comin ...
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  • Amoah 7 years ago

    We supposed to remove middle men from getting passport and go by the rules and regulations.come and see even in London how many Nigerians holding ghanaian passport. Victor Smith charge them 600 pounds and sell our passports t ...
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  • Yaw - USA 7 years ago

    How can this be unannounced when we are made aware of what organization he will be visiting next?

  • JOE 7 years ago

    There is the need for lasting solution to the problem. How many surprise visits can be made to all departments and agencies. The heads of these departments should be held accountable.You make a surprise visit and when you ret ...
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  • danso 7 years ago

    corruption is killing and whom you know is killing our country.

  • SIMPLICITY 7 years ago

    THE GOV'T SHOULD PLEASE LOOK INTO THE PASSPORT DURATION WHICH WAS REDUCED TO 4 YEARS DURING NDC TO THE NORMAL 8 YEARS.

  • OWUSU 7 years ago

    THE VICE PRESIDENT SHOULD COME AND TAKE OVER THE WORK. HE THINKS HE IS THE ONLY RIGHTFUL PERSON IN GHANA. THEY SHOULD CLEAN THEIR BOTTOMS WELL BEFORE LOOKING INTO OTHERS.

  • BISMARCK ASARE, USA 7 years ago

    I think is wrong for the public to go to the Passport processing office to wait for their passports. Things are not right. The agency must implement policies that ensures that it conforms to the law of the land. id there is a ...
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  • GHANABA 7 years ago

    Got nothing better to do? He should go and read his brief.

  • OH YES 7 years ago

    The speed President Akufo Addo and Vice President Bawumia and the NPP is going to take this country towards progress will be unprecedented in the history of this country.
    You can never go wrong with the party of absolute int ...
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