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Corruption galore at Passport Office

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  • NDC IS PURELY EVIL 10 years ago

    ndc is just useless

  • Torgbigah-NDC MUST go 10 years ago

    you see how ghana is? sabotaging the pride of the nation through passport.. now our passport is making its way to nigerians and other foreign nationals again,,and ghana immigration service look on unconcerned.im applying for ...
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  • OZA 10 years ago

    Long time ago, when I needed a passport, I just went to the Post Office counter in Somanya, paid only 5 cedis fee to collect the forms. I filled out and submitted it myself to the Passport office in Accra, then went back in t ...
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  • OSBON 10 years ago

    Can any body tell me what this NDC government has done right.
    Please no insult. Just the facts.
    Thank you all.

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  • KKK 10 years ago

    ABOUT VISA RACKETS

  • BOMBER 10 years ago

    more worse things happen over there.I paid extra 700 cedis for my passport and that of my child,even that,it took two weeks.

  • kululu 10 years ago

    The whole workers there, from top to bottom including the directors are corrupt. Each person at the passport office targets building a mansion of his own by fleecing on gullible clients. Unless Anas Aremeyaw intervene to expo ...
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  • TRUE GHANAian 10 years ago

    I don't think Issuing of Passports in Ghana should be a problem at all, if the government or those in charge will be very honest and take my free advise. The system should be the following: Step (1) The Government should get ...
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  • Mahmoud 10 years ago

    Everything is "bassa" in our country. Some times you think whether there is a government at all in charge of anything except protecting its own power of being in office. Comparing ourselves to other countries, you feel ashame ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    what's the minister doing about this? Is he in the deal?

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    corruption from head to toe

  • Akonoba 10 years ago

    The worse part of this is to put a member of the most corrupt family in Ghana, an Ahwoi in charge of the Ministry of Interior and therefore 'supervising' the passport office.

    It seems that the only reason the NDC fought to ...
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  • Tobias 10 years ago

    Akonoba, I support u brother and I'm beginning to wonder why the president even appointed such a corrupt man into his government. Does the president want to lose the votes of over thousand Ghanaians all because of this Ahwoi ...
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  • ABOKYI 10 years ago

    The Passport Office has been a canker ever since I was born and therefore doubt if matters can change for the better.

    Who knows the Big Guns are involved in the deals over there. Chop Chop everywhere in Ghana!

  • Akwasi Kumahene 10 years ago

    That is why Nigerians crooks are able to procure Ghana's passport. NDC government burnt on destroying Ghana.

  • WABENZE 10 years ago

    my brother forget about it. that will not work. AFRICA IS LIKE ZOO NO LAWS.MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON US.

  • OSBON 10 years ago

    True Ghanaian, you have just created more bribe takers than it exist now. Every stage of your suggestions require a bribe taker. even the cashiers at the banks collecting the passport form fees will take bribe. the village ch ...
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  • Yoshida 10 years ago

    Hi TRUE GHANAian, how about suggesting to your government to decentralize the whole process?
    They should get some of the machines and trained personnel at all the regional centres where identities and addresses of applicant ...
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  • THE MASK 10 years ago

    What is even worse, is the fact,that most applying for a passport will NEVER meet the standard of application to get approval for the country they are applying to.
    So, the majority are wasting monies trying.

  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    WE have been repeating to President Mahama to keep firing people until he observe a tendency to change by administrators. As at now, everything looks pretty immutable so WE ARE FIRMLY ASKING THE PRESIDENT, not only TO START S ...
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  • Akonoba 10 years ago

    Who is this Vuvuzela moron who seems to be such a poor joker? Do you think that it is for nothing that the President is not even as much as commenting on all these crooks in his govt? Who appointed them in the first place and ...
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  • Tony Obroni 10 years ago

    you reporter is RIGHT !
    It is now ghc 300 to get a passport in 2 weeks...forget it if you do not have a goro

  • DAN 10 years ago

    employees for corruption and the Goro boys for trespassing/loitering!

  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    WHY on earth does ANYBODY NEED a "middleman" to get a passport ??? You fill the Forms,submit and IF there's NO MISTAKE,,,,,,why can't you get your Passport ??? Ghana,on the whole is just NOT a civilised country!!

  • GHFUO, LOVE/DOR YOURSELF! 10 years ago

    EVERYWHERE IS FULL OF CORRUPT, LYING THIEVES IN GH. START JAILING THESE CORRUPT PPL. GIVE THEM MAXIMUM SENTENCES. THIS DISEASE IS FULL BLOWN N SPREADING VERY FAST.

  • Ogya 10 years ago

    What about NIGERIANS invloved in criminality in UK possessing GHANAIAN passports?

    How did they get them?
    Who gave it to them?
    Hmmmm!!

  • GHFUO, LOVE/DOR YOURSELF! 10 years ago

    ONLY JOE CLARK CAN SAVE GH...

  • Senyo 10 years ago

    Passport office is a big mess all the staff are involved in the mess

  • Before & After 10 years ago

    Common passport...I needed a passport for my child and it took nearly a month to get it after buying the express forms at the post office. When you get there, the gate men, cleaners, administrators and ALL are involved. I saw ...
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  • NAT 10 years ago

    ALL THESE PROBLEMS WAS AS A RESULT OF THE GORO BOYS WHICH THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND MINISTRY OF INTERIOR HAVE TO DO AWAY WITH THEM.THE IMMIGRATION SEVRICE SHOULD DO AWAY WITH THE GORO BOYS AND ALL OFFICES SHOULD DO ...
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  • Nde 10 years ago

    The Goro boys were also at the AIRPORT. Where are they now? Something dratically must be done to do away with such practices and unfortunately it is done to loyal Ghanaian citizens

  • Ghanabiya 10 years ago

    It is the passport applicants that are to be blamed. They give the bribe. They create the urgency in which they need the passport and want to bypass the laid down rules for the acquisition of passports.

    People are posses ...
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  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    I AGREE THAT THERE IS TOO MUCH CORRUPTION AT THE PASSPORT OFFICE. I WAS RECENTLY A VICTIM OF CORRUPTION. AFTER COMPLETING MY PASSPORT FORM AND BEFORE MY BIOMETRIC DETAILS AND IDENTITY COULD BE TAKEN I WAS FORCED TO PAY GHC30 ...
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  • KWAME 10 years ago

    DVLA, Passport Office, ECG, Ghana Water etc.The staff are in collusion with these so called goro boys. The staff deliberately frustrate clients who are forced to pay extra to the goro boys who go back and share with the staff ...
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  • Nii Akwei 10 years ago

    Better Ghana Agenda for you. Thank GOD, I don't need Ghana passport anymore. I have no use for it.

  • WASTY 10 years ago

    SOME OF THE IMM OFFICERS ARE IN THE KNOWN OF THAT SHAMEFULL ACT ..... AND IT IS HAPPENING AT MOST PASSPORT CENTERS. THE IMMI OFFICERS ALSO BEG FOR MONEY , U PAY AND THE FASTER THE PROCESS

  • Donboli 10 years ago

    Passport is like your ID and you should be able to walk in pay a fee and have you passport the next day.
    We have to start getting post code and addressess where we live. If you have your address where ever you go incase some ...
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  • GHFUO, LOVE/DOR YOURSELF! 10 years ago

    CLEAN HOUSE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, INCLUDING THESE GORO BOYS. IM SURE THERE R UNEMPLOYED PPL IN GH WILLING TO WORK N BE HONEST N DILIGENT. GIVE THEM A CHANCE. U MESS UP 1 TIME, U ARE OUT!

  • DAN 10 years ago

    saudi terrorist where able to pass their visa thru travel agent and don't go to US embassy in person!

  • mohammed amin abdallah adenta fafraha 10 years ago

    I HAVE PAID FOR PASS PORT BARELY 3 YEARS NOW I COULD NOT UP TO DATE SUBMIT IT.

  • baby luv 10 years ago

    So we now agree that is not only the
    politicians who are corrupt. All of us ARE. Just name One office where anything is got free. I was at Nurses training school just for a signature on a document and I had to pay for that. ...
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  • MR SPOILER 10 years ago

    The post offices in this country are even more corrupt than all.I remember when I went there to pick up my laptop I was ask to pay GHC 500 new cedis and I ask the woman only one laptop she says yes,I had to bargain with the ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    www.walmart.com.....i just seen small accer in market for $199 open box display model..This why ghana is fucked up they over price everything at post office or tema port...A $500-$1000 car become a $5000 in ghana!

  • Nana Asare 10 years ago

    THIS WILL ONLY STOP IF THE SENIOR OFFICIAL STOP TAKING BRIBES

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Thanks God someone has raised this issue. I was in the process of writing to the office of the President and copied to the National Security Coordinator on the matter. The ROT is just too shameful and for goodness sake. Pleas ...
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  • Akonoba 10 years ago

    Kofi you want to write to the President and the National Security Coordinator? What wrong with you? You think they do not know what is going on there? You think they are not beneficiaries in one way or another of the rot? Whe ...
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  • Dede 10 years ago

    this is very true and its happened to me. I have to pay a total of 500 cedis to get a passport for my brother. Its not only goro boys, its from head to bottom, all of them

  • Mike 10 years ago

    People, don't be ashame to take up another nationality if you can. Ghana is now becoming the Stupid republic. Nothing is done right. What a country

  • KWAME 10 years ago

    Ghanaians should take note of these developments in the country because they will be campaign issues when we get there. If everbody forgets, I will never forget them. I am very proud of retentive memory and I use when others ...
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  • Joe Turkey 10 years ago

    If you think "Goro Boys" are only at the Passport Office, you must be living in a fool's world. They are everywhere, including the Castle. They are agents of the same officials who are hired to do the things we pay them to do ...
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  • Ephyah 10 years ago

    Oh Ghana wen ll corruption come 2 an end

  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    Those who hate to hear the truth are the ones who will come in contact with such nauseating aspects of mismanagement.

    Ghana is under the curse of whatever god it is because we have handed over the nation to truants, thiev ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    Bring the British back to run the government

  • Kofi Ampaasem 10 years ago

    I had a recent nasty experience there myself and had to threaten exposing them to the Minister before i was served properly. How can we control the validity of the passport process if untrained "agents" are allowed to interfe ...
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  • Inkoom 10 years ago

    Kofi, are u normal? Don't u understand that the minister is the root of this nonsense going on? He's the king of corruption and father of thieves. Mahama has his own reason of appointing this criminal that already killed Atta ...
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  • Stan 10 years ago

    People shd be fired. The shameless corruption there has become an institutional phenomenon

  • ebo smithe 10 years ago

    sekondi branch:no goro Boys but the real officials are the goro Boys.

  • KANAWU 10 years ago

    NDC: CORRUPTION EVERYWHERE. THAT'S WHAT IT IS.

  • Edem Anyidohoho Fiankonu. 10 years ago

    Mo nyinaa mo hweoa wate. chop chop every where. it no go stop. Is a good business. is someone carear so stop making that noise. Is ghana ooo. I de be keke keke kekekekeke. Mahama all the way. Mahama will go second term.

  • Sariki Zongo 10 years ago

    Blame also those Ignorants who willingly give Bribes

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    The current centralised system of processing passport is a definite breeding ground for corruption and has to change. It has placed to much power in the hands of a few technocrats and we all know power corrupts. The bureaucra ...
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  • OWUSU 10 years ago

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    NO PAYMENT WOULD BE MADE TILL VISA IS SECURED.
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  • DODOWA 10 years ago

    I am surprised this passes as newsworthy. Acquisition of passport has always been fraught with corruption since antediluvian time. Passport office has always served as the “GORO UNIT” for lickspittles who are yet to recei ...
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  • ASUOAFRAM 10 years ago

    OWNING A PASSPORT IS THE RIGHT OF EVERY LAW-ABIDING GHANAIAN.UNFORTUNATELY, SOME GREEDY EMPLOYEES WITHIN THE PASSPORT OFFICE ARE ENRICHING THEMSESELVES AT THE EXPENSE OF UNWARY CITIZENS. WE ARE ALL AWARE OF THE PROBLEMS ONE H ...
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  • Efo Kobla 10 years ago

    At Kumasi immigration when the passports comes the hid the and start "go-come-go-come". When the applicant is tired, they demand GHC100 and give the applicant the passport.

  • Amegavie 10 years ago

    Oh my brother forget about Kumasi because we all know Kumasi is hell and the home of 419 gangsters. You will have to pay bribe in Kumasi to even buy a sachet of pure water so please don't ruin the plat form because Kumasi is ...
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  • lydia.usa 10 years ago

    corruption everywhere in Ghana common
    passport you have to pay connection
    money.can't they fix the faulty
    machines

  • EMMA 10 years ago

    CREATE ,LOOT AND SHARE EVERYWHERE AND EVEN AT THE PRESIDENCY. U GO PAY B4 U ANGEL MAHAMA. I DON'T SEE ANY COMMITMENT TO STOP CORRUPTION IN GHANA LOOK AT EVEN DVLA AND PASSPORT OFFICE, POLICE SERVICE OF GHANA AND MORE OF THIS ...
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  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    We continue to destroy ourselves. Ghana is on a slippery slope led by the president himself!

  • Christine 10 years ago

    Ghana is a corrupt country and the love it.

  • HUMILITY 10 years ago

    passport,license office has been that for years, this is where the 'goro' boys get their daily bread, i personally think is better than 419 and arm robbery killing people for mobile phones. if you dont want to involve them no ...
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  • Mahama has a problem finally 10 years ago

    Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Kwesi Ahwoi himself is the father and root of corruption. May God judge this ugly bastard with mouth starch like a drunkard. Is Mahama even thinking at all to appoint this evil,an that doesn't want to ...
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  • william 10 years ago

    the president need to fire the boss and all those inconnection with those goro boys i have been there and knw what is going on!

  • Who God Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
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  • Who God Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
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  • Who God Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
    read full comment

  • Who God Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
    read full comment

  • Who God Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
    read full comment

  • Who God Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
    read full comment

  • Who God Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
    read full comment

  • Who God Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
    read full comment

  • Who God Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
    read full comment

  • Who God Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
    read full comment

  • WhoGod Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
    read full comment

  • Who God Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
    read full comment

  • WhoGod Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
    read full comment

  • WhoGod Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
    read full comment

  • WhoGod Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
    read full comment

  • Who God Bless 10 years ago

    My problem with the president is that you already knew the sensitive offices but still went ahead to appoint criminals like Kwesi Ahwoi to head this interior department. Is there anything Ghanaians don't know with this kind o ...
    read full comment

  • JIM CROW 10 years ago

    CROOKS AND ROGUES IN POLITICS!

  • papason 10 years ago

    I think we as a nation must wake up to protect the interest and the dignity of our country concerning this passport issues.we have been ban to enter many countries why?my brothers this nigerian are using our passport for a ve ...
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  • Mensimah 8 years ago

    Well the issue remains the same after three years of publishing this article. this issue is a matter of ensuring that the law or even the rules around the processes to be ensured by the heads in the place. i know there are ce ...
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  • Mensimah 8 years ago

    Well the issue remains the same after three years of publishing this article. this issue is a matter of ensuring that the law or even the rules around the processes to be ensured by the heads in the place. i know there are ce ...
    read full comment