It is not only politicians who engage in fraudulent acts like many have concluded. In fact, civil servants are more dangerous, and have been involved in very dreadful activities that have the tendency to destroy and ruin the nation’s diplomatic relations with other countries.
The newest to join the league of such questionable characters in Ghana’s civil service, is the Chief Director of the Ministry of Transport (MOT), E.N.Y Tackie-Yarboi. He is currently on the wanted list of the Police and the US Embassy in Ghana, for his involvement in visa fraud.
According to the Informer’s reliable sources at the US Embassy, Mr. Tackie-Yarboi, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, applied to the embassy requesting for visas for five officers in the employment of the Ghana Airport Company Limited, who were supposed to travel to the US to hold discussion with SYMX Infrastructure Inc. and partners.
The US embassy in verifying the information put out to ascertain whether the mentioned personalities indeed work with the aforementioned company as the Chief Director claims, finds out that the names he submitted had no affiliation with the Ghana Airport Company; and the Embassy has since written to the police for assistance, sources at the embassy have hinted.
However, credible document intercepted and currently in possession of The Informer indicates that, Mr. Tackie-Yarboi had, indeed, written to the Chief Protocol Officer at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, requesting for the Ministry’s assistance to facilitate the process to enable the personalities he claimed work at the Ghana Airport Company Limited acquire visas.
“Mr. Emmanuel Nii Yartey Tackie-Yarboi, Chief Director, Ministry of Transport, is leading a delegation to visit the United States of America, at the instance of SYMX Infrastructure from 30th April to 4th May, 1012.
Mr. Nii Yartey Tackie-Yarboi would be accompanied by Messrs Daniel Yaw Oppong, Lawyer; Richard Twumasi-Ankrah, Lawyer ; Richard Ntim Boateng, Administrator; Robertson Awuah Boakye Yiadom, Marketing Manager and Ms. Marian August-Adotey, Marketing, all of Ghana Airport Company Limited.
We would be grateful if the delegation would be issued with two- years’ multiple reentry visas, to enable the delegation hold discussions with SYMC Infrastructure Inc. and partners in the U.S.A; to develop airport projects in Ghana.
We count on your usual cooperation”, the letter to the Chief Protocol Officer at the Foreign Affairs Ministry reads.
According to this paper’s intelligence at the police CID headquarters in Accra, the CID has written to the Ministry of Transport for the release of Mr. Emmanuel Nii Yartey Tackie-Yarboi, Chief Director to assist in investigations.
However, sources at CID have hinted that authorities at the Embassy are following developments with keen interest since this is not the first time such a thing has cropped up.
On this note, we are calling the appropriate authorities to ensure that the nation’s diplomatic ties are not jeopardize, but ensure that anyone found to have engaged in such act is severely dealt with.