Ablakwa appoints interdicted Passports Director; Aboagye disputes 2023 claim

The New Patriotic Party’s Director of Communications, Dennis Miracles Aboagye says the current Foreign Affairs Minister employed the interdicted Director of Passports, Mahama Yahaya Amantana,

According to him, it is therefore shocking that the minister, in his press statement, will say the scheme under investigation started in 2023.

His comments come on the back of an earlier statement issued by the Foreign Affairs Ministry explaining decisions taken on the sale of service passports by some staff of the ministry.

“The current scheme that is under discussion, of which the minister claims he has set up a committee to deal with, is not a scheme from 2023. Indeed, all the names the minister mentions to you that they have been interdicted—none of them was in that role in the first place in 2023.

The Director of Passports the Minister claims he has interdicted was not the Director of Passports in 2023. The young officer, Osman, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, claims to be the lead architect of this scheme, is simply someone the minister is trying to throw to the dogs to cover up this grand scheme. This gentleman in the first place, was not even at the Ministry in 2023,” he told the press on November 8, 2026.

He continued, “so it cannot be that the minister has dealt with a 2023 scheme. They are all schemes set up, orchestrated and executed right before the minister and facilitated by the minister.

The minister is the one who appointed the Director of Passport, who went ahead to set up a travel and tour scheme, appointed Ibrahim Wale as the agent, and then appointed Bright Owusu as the agent.