Majority Leader, James Agalga, says the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, is willing to appear before Parliament to brief members on the interdiction of the Director of Passports, Yahaya Amantana Mahama, and the investigations into alleged irregularities surrounding the acquisition of a service passport.

Agalga gave the assurance on the floor of Parliament on Friday, 6 November, following calls by the Minority for the Foreign Affairs Minister to account for the development before the House.

The Minority had asked that the Minister be invited to brief Parliament through the Committee on Foreign Affairs, arguing that the matter was of significant public interest and required transparency.

Its leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin said the Minister should not restrict himself to executive functions when Parliament and the Ghanaian public were demanding answers.

“We have a Committee on Foreign Affairs. We need the Minister to come and brief the House through the Committee on this publication,” the MP said.

Agalga responding to the issue confirmed that the Director had been interdicted to allow investigations into the matter to proceed.

He said the Foreign Affairs Minister was prepared to appear before the appropriate parliamentary committee and provide an update on the investigations.

“A mere invitation to the Minister will suffice and he’s somebody who is very willing and eager to come to this House and appear before the Committee for Foreign Affairs and apprise them of how far they have gone with the investigation,” he stated.

“I’d want to assure this House that whosoever is found culpable of any wrongdoing will not be shelved. So there is no cause for alarm,” he added.

Asaase News first broke the story of the reported interdiction of Mahama, who was asked to step aside pending investigations into alleged irregularities surrounding the acquisition of a service passport.

The development followed a petition submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by a prominent Ghanaian pastor and his wife, whose identities have not been disclosed.

A five-member investigative committee, chaired by Ambassador Alexander Grant, was constituted on October 13, 2026, to examine the petition and the circumstances surrounding the acquisition of the service passport.

The committee is expected to submit its findings to the sector Minister. Ambassador Francis Danti Kotia has reportedly been assigned to act as Director of Passports while the investigations continue.

The reported interdiction has heightened public interest in the administration of Ghana’s passport regime, particularly following allegations raised by the Minority in Parliament about irregularities in the acquisition and issuance of diplomatic and service passports.

On Tuesday, 3 November, Damongo MP and Ranking Member of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Samuel Abu Jinapor, alleged on the floor of Parliament that Ghanaian diplomatic passports were being sold for between US$10,000 and US$50,000.

His remarks triggered a heated disagreement with the Majority, culminating in Speaker Alban Bagbin directing him to withdraw the allegation or substantiate it. The exchanges eventually led to Mr Jinapor being escorted out of the chamber and the Minority Caucus staging a walkout.

The Majority has maintained that the matter brought to the attention of the Foreign Affairs Ministry concerns a service passport and should not be conflated with the separate allegations about the sale of diplomatic passports.

The allegations remain under investigation, and no final findings establishing wrongdoing by the Director of Passports have been made public.