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Passport Office Collapsing

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  • Kwame 11 years ago

    GHANA IS FAST FAILING.

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

    The whole nation is fast colapsing, a
    country being administered by idiots, thieves, dishonest and deceit monkeys
    such as Asiedu-Nketia, drunkard Koku
    Anyidoho, Dramani Mahama, swine like
    Ofosu Kwakye, Prostitute Anita De ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    Ghana prides hetself as the showpiece of everything good in Africa but we fail to realize that we are gradually becoming a failed state. Why should people queue for passport in modern Ghana. Please don't take us back to the 1 ...
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  • WHY PASSPOR PICRURE? 11 years ago

    Why didn't he show the picture of the collapsing building instead?

  • JATO 11 years ago

    BETTER GHANA FOR YOU,FOR OVER 35 YEARS OF AFRC- P/NDC RULE,THE LONGEST POLITICAL PARTY IN GHANA'S HISTORYTHE NATION IS BACKWARD EVER,FORWARD NEVER.NDC PARTY IS NOW SPEND,THEIR WEEKENDS AT PEDUASE LODGE,AFTER K4 AND NPP RENOVA ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    Come on, the office can collapse because of corruption and inefficiency. Sorry you have not seen such an expression used before.

  • KOJO-MENSAH, DENMARK. 11 years ago

    What do they need the passports for? to go and clean in London or wash ass in old folks homes

  • shhhhhhhhh London 11 years ago

    Kojo Mensah Denmark, what are you doing in Denmark sometimes some stupid utterances are highly unaccepted what kind of job are you doing as well in Denmark, if ur potential is at cleaning someone can do better in another fiel ...
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  • Omanbapa 11 years ago

    You are wrong. Most of them need the passport to go on holidays abroad after success in the businesses under the NDC in the past 4 years.

  • lardi 11 years ago

    Becareful u dont issue our passports to Nigerians.These people will disgrace us.It took us years to make our image in the world,we should not allow nigerians to destroy it.Be awake.With their accent u can tel.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    The Nigerians and other West African nationals have them already. They can still get it faster than Ghanaians because of our corrupt officials.

  • ADWEN 11 years ago

    This is the price we all pay (inefficiencies, waste, low quality services in public service delivery), if we refuse to electo people who can manage the country well.
    Is this what we can say bettering Ghana?

  • The African Patriot 11 years ago

    No wonder, that mostly all the offices are collapsing, if Millions of dollars are stoled to bribe people in the election time and or stolod by one men Mr. Woyome or a plane full of Ghana gold rubbed to foreigners, etc.

    Wha ...
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  • akwesi 11 years ago

    The african partriot,your english,grammar and spelling are too bad,pls i will advice you not to comment again.

  • truth 11 years ago

    Should he make comments in twi and can you read it. Manage with the little english you know and we will understand you.

  • Omanbapa Osei Oy3ade3yie 11 years ago

    Interesting that you are suggesting to someone not to comment again because his English grammar is bad, yet you do not know the difference between 'advise' and 'advice'

  • Michael Nii Ayi Thompson 11 years ago

    I knew that it will come to this. When we introduced some of our ideas to sitting government at the time. we had put in place a backup plan that could have eliminated all these issues.

  • Moses, 11 years ago

    THE PROBLEM IN GHANA IS CORRUPTION. HOW CAN PEOPLE GO THROUGH MIDDLEMEN TO OBTAIN PASSPORTS? HOW CAN THE AUTHORITIES ASCERTAIN WHO IS BEING GIVEN THE PASSPORT.NO WONDER THE GHANAIAN PASSPORT IS CHEAP. IT IS FOR THE HIGHEST BI ...
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  • KOJO-MENSAH, DENMARK. 11 years ago

    Yes, everything is money, what do you think the people in the passport office are working for? even in the uk if you have the money and you know the "right people" you will have your document sorted

  • CITIZEN ONE 11 years ago

    Maybe it has increased by a bit, but as I recall the fee for a US passport is probably equivalent to a minimum wage earners 8 hour day salary. Under $100.

    I don't really know exactly how much one has to spend to eventually ...
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  • The Real 11 years ago

    My brotha, you're so right! They blame this thinking on improper education or lack of one, for that matter. They seem to forget that morals have nothing to do with classrooms. Ghanians are simply void of any sincerity towards ...
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  • APA 11 years ago

    GHANAIANS, WE ARE FOOLS. WE CANNOT MANAGE OUR OWN AFFAIRS. WE NEED THE WHITEMEN BACK ASAP.

  • KOJO-MENSAH, DENMARK. 11 years ago

    Yes we need the whites back ASAP. we can't even provide enough water and electricity for our selves, even common food we can't produce enough to feed our selves and our animals even though we have enough land and rivers, SHAM ...
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  • truth 11 years ago

    Your statement that Ghanaians are fools points to what you are going through now, you are struggling in life.change your ways and stop insulting a whole country and the people in it.

  • ADAMA 11 years ago

    Ghana is sinking very fast under these NDC thieves. ATONGO MAHAMA THE THIEF

  • ADAMA 11 years ago

    WE TOLD U SO. NDC IS A CURSE PARTY FOR FOOLISH PEOPLE, ANIMALS AND THIEVES

  • shhhhhhhhh London 11 years ago

    when you finish removing the plunk in your eyes then you can try removing for others you are a cursed person dt blame it elsewhere

  • Dr.AMOAH GYABI 11 years ago

    If you think its difficult to get Ghana Passport in Ghana come and try for one in Europe.I live in Brussels(Belgium),the capital of Europe.I applied for a Ghanaian Passport since 2 months ago and have heard nothing about it ...
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  • Serwaa 11 years ago

    Infact Ghana is far behind nothing that we implement succeed, we need the NPP with their strategic management to run the affairs of our motherland

  • iPad 11 years ago

    The Director of passport, E.O Anim's reasons for the delays is empty, baseless and typical of most heads of Ghana institutions apathy to problems.
    The real problems are not the short of computers and scanners but the intenti ...
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  • CHARCOAL SELLER. 11 years ago

    NDC/NPP LORRRD HAVE MERRRCY ON WE!

  • Johnson 11 years ago

    No one is held to account for shortcomings and irresponsible failures in govt and civil service, so they sit there AND make bla-bla-bla to any serious problem and walk away. if things improve, they cannot make the booty they ...
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  • akwesi 11 years ago

    Many countries nowadays givernment agencies like the immigration,custom,foreign make their own money and read their budgets and development priorities,stupid africa,everything is collapsing in ghana,nobody cares.common genera ...
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  • hans 11 years ago

    TACKLE THE CORRUPTION, THERE IS TOO MUCH CORRUPTION AT THE PASSPORT OFFICE, THEY ONLY TAKE 60 OR 70 APPLICANTS A DAY WHAT THOUSANDS, PURE PROPAGANDA

  • Akyemaa. 11 years ago

    Everything shouldn't be done in Greater Accra.Yes is the capital but is congested with traffic and corruption. Directly and indirectly robbing Peter to pay Paul. Why can't those in the northern part of the Region handle passp ...
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  • GettingAnnoyedByTheseMisfitsInMinistr 11 years ago

    If the situation is unforeseen shouldn't you be sacked? Besides how do you write memos to your parent ministry for funds to be released by the ministry of finance if the situation is unforeseen? Under Atta-Mills till date, if ...
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  • lentonwayne 11 years ago

    Why cannot the money from the passport fees be invested in new equipment. Where is that money? It has been chopped. Foolish people in the passport offices.

  • Oko 11 years ago

    Hhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Ghana has never changed. O God always the same problem. Let it collapse just like all the structures and institutions we have. We chop Ghana money like never before and we are told we can ...
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  • Unlimited 11 years ago

    There's too many things that need to be fix . Ghana passport is like nothing but trash or junk .Example, Why Nigerians were able to obtain Ghana passport so easy ? Many Nigerians now using Ghana passport more than ever . The ...
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  • Opata 11 years ago

    As usual only one thing works perfectly in Ghana. People comply when going to the public toilet. Men follow their line and women do so. Besides this toilet business which is personal, the rest of our country's business can go ...
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  • Abeeku Mensah 11 years ago

    Whoever sold this biometric idea to Ghana knew from the start Ghana's leaders were incapable of best practices and procedure to make either the elections become a success or the passport office succeed in whatever the heck it ...
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  • Ceeboy Dangerman 11 years ago

    The image posted as Ghana passport by Ghanapage is out-to-date. For the information of readers, Ghana issues new and internationally acceptable ECOWAS passport, which is green in colour. Please take note of this. The passport ...
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  • COMMENTARY 11 years ago

    this is how corruption is legalised in a country when bureaucracy tries its best to limit its operation to the public to create articial shortages to enable people to use the back door- to pay secrect monies to the workers th ...
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  • COMMENTARY 11 years ago

    the passport office workers are making corrupt earnings from this situation to cheat thier fellow citizens. this is the opression in our official institutions.
    because they want people to use the back door- to acquire passpo ...
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  • Omanbapa 11 years ago

    We are Ghanaians and we just don't want smooth issuance of passports. If everything becomes simple and straight forward at the passport office, we wouldn't feel Ghanaian enough. We prefer leaving our work place and spending t ...
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  • Abeiku - London 11 years ago

    U mean has COLLAPSED

  • Ama Ofori 11 years ago

    This passport office is most corrupt institution in Ghana where even security people at the gate want to collect money from passport Applicants. Why should people bride staff of passport office before they get their passport ...
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  • labito 11 years ago

    Passport office in accra is most corrupt office i have ever visit in the country so far. with all this bribery and corruption i still do not understand why the lack so called logistics please kindly help me to do this arithme ...
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  • mackenzie 11 years ago

    yes this is how they work ta the office. i sent my application to the office for about one month now, i have not receive my passport yet but they ordered me to come for it on the 21 January but yet, i was once told to come ba ...
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  • SOLOMON KWABENA EFFAH MALLORCA SPAIN 11 years ago

    oh mother ghana this is the end of gold coast i was living in spain i lost my passport last year 18/05/2012 if i called the emby they h'nt pick the fone to answer me i w'nt to come to gh but becos of this i ca'nt

  • francis b sam 11 years ago

    GHANA SHOULD TRY TO MOVE CLOSER TO
    THE 21ST. CENTURY PASSPORT APPLICATION
    FORMS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FREE OF
    CHARGE AT DESIGNATED AREAS IN ALL THE
    CITIES AND TOWNS PEOPLE SHOULD BRING
    COMPLETED FORMS TO THE PASSPORT OF ...
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  • Kwame 11 years ago

    Thanks to your office THE HAJJ news paper . This is my first time i'm reading something very useful and important for the country Ghana from your papers and keep up this good work .

  • Kofi Mahama 11 years ago

    ANOTHER ISSUE IS THAT ALL IVORIANS WHO SPEAK TWI AND ENGLISH ARE NOW COMING FOR GHANAIAN PASSPORT AS WELL AS NIGERIANS. WATCH IT.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 11 years ago

    THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD. OH!! THIS ODDITY KNOWN AS NDC. GHANAIANS HAVE UNLEASHED THE POWER OF HELL UPON THEMSELVES.

  • Sammy 11 years ago

    It is about time the Director of Passports in Accra given his walking papers.He is too corrupt and incompetent.He has the nerve to complain instead of doing his job.Tweah. Sack him immediately.

  • YAW 11 years ago

    That is Ghana. This is what we want. Biometric but will not last long. We are going to build universities and school now as promised by this government but the government has NO plan of improving the old schools and universit ...
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  • ATO SPIO NEW YORK 11 years ago

    THE DIRECT SHOULD BE FIRED.ANY SERIOUS MINDED GHANAIAN CAN EFFECTIVELY RUN THE AFFAIRS OF THAT MINISTRY WITH SUCCESS.IS JUST LACK OF ADMINISTRATIVE ACUMEN.GIVE IT TO A PRAVITE ENTITY AND WITHIN A YEAR IT WILL RIPE A FORTUNE.L ...
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  • Akutsah 11 years ago

    Let me who will come and tell me that my existing will expire at the end of 2015, how much is desk top computer costing?

  • Ing Joseph Oddei 10 years ago

    I tell you this article is very useful. Ghana has failed with corruptible practices..... The passport office is just horrible. I have paid for express passport and about 2 months i have not received my passport. Instead colle ...
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  • Mr Emmanuel Darko 10 years ago

    I am Emmanuel Darko. For the past seven months i applied for an international passport through the Ghana embassy in Nigeria but i haven't received my passport. Please something should be done on that i beg the management.

  • Asare Micheal 10 years ago

    It has been a suprise for how long a passport can be processed.This because it almost four month now i opted for a passport and it still not yet in.Another concern is about them getting a software that will inform an applican ...
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  • jay sly 9 years ago

    please no laziness please

  • NANA WIREKO 9 years ago

    THIS IS WHAT THEY CALL BETTER GHANA AGENDA. HAHAHAHAAAA
    IT IS SAD.................

  • Attahu Japhet Collins 9 years ago

    I have gone through every process concerning passport and they give 3 weeks yo come and collect my passport but is almost 6month now when I go they said is not in.

  • Ghana ba pa 9 years ago

    What kind of leaders is this the only thing they knew is bribe and shit this is very bad