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'Sham' US embassy in Ghana issued fake visas for a decade

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  • cha 7 years ago

    Mahama is so busy stealing and corrupt look at how foreigners are duping our own ppl= we need change

  • EC PLANS MASS REJECTION OF NPP VOTES 7 years ago

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  • Apraku 7 years ago

    So the US government wants to tell Ghanaians that those who obtained that fake visas travelled with those visas to the US without being detected by the US authorities,despite the surveillance in their immigration centres at t ...
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  • Jordys 7 years ago

    This is more than a rat, my friend. There is no way anyone could cross into the US, if they're not in the Immigration's computer systems.
    Anyone using any such documents must be very lucky to have a lazy officer checking th ...
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  • Kwame 7 years ago

    U can say that again my friend

  • Niyo 7 years ago

    This is a typical fake news created by the US counter intelligence agencies: the CIA & FBI just to test the Ghana security intelligence of their quality performance!!
    That's why there're no names of persons arrested,
    no ful ...
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  • Teshie House 7 years ago

    I agree.

  • Niyo 7 years ago

    They are just testing the quality security intelligence performance of Ghana,
    The US embassy, CIA & the FBI are all behind this fake news also!!!
    After this news, you'll see that many cheap-Ghanaians will start pointing fin ...
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  • Tony 7 years ago

    Togo & Ghana- Aflao border needs some clean up with all the corruption!

  • BlackC 7 years ago

    It was operating for over a decade so it is more than just Mahama. There are more agencies in Ghana's government than the presidency.

    Every issue/problem in Ghana is not just a NDC/NPP cause.

    These corrupt officials ...
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  • GHANANI 7 years ago

    The CIA has turned american embassies into dens of subversion against host nations for years.When are the authorities in Ghana going to take action to stop it?

  • GHANANI 7 years ago

    The CIA has turned american embassies into dens of subversion against host nations for years.When are the authorities in Ghana going to take action to stop it?

  • GHANANI 7 years ago

    The CIA has turned american embassies into dens of subversion against host nations for years.When are the authorities in Ghana going to take action to stop it?

  • NDC IS A CURSE 7 years ago

    WHOM SAID MAHAMA DOES NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS SCAM?HE IS INDEED A SHAREHOLDER.

  • Kofi 7 years ago

    Do you really understand the word Decade ago? Where was Mahama then?

  • OBIBA JK 7 years ago

    maybe you are blockheaded.if not so then a decade of it operation should tell you that was 2006.and that is Kuffours government.that was when it started operation.Kuffour hotel du wawa government

  • 1 Loaf 7 years ago

    Ten years ago Akkufo Aduie was Ghana's foreign minister. The Americans must for once expose this fraudulent gangster.

  • Mad fish 7 years ago

    Author is mahama also control American? If usa can site and Russia elected president for USA. Nowadays going to America very easy you can also site in room and stamp passport inside and go to usa.

  • Baaba 7 years ago

    CHA. Manama was not there 10 years ago.

  • OBIBA JK 7 years ago

    if you don't like someone,no amount of good things will you appreciate.maybe be you don't like Mahama.but if you want to judge him on this news then blame the Kuffour hotel du wawa government.because this fake embassy has bee ...
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  • Majlnu 7 years ago

    One special thing about this embassy is that all the visas and green cards given were genuine and acceptable by U.S surveillance system. Ghanaians outsmarting United States. You can understand how bad the US graduates are. US ...
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  • Kosi 7 years ago

    SHAME ON YOU CHA. THAT EMBASSY HAS BEING IN OPERATION SOME 10 YEARS AGO. THIS MEANS IT STARTED UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYES OF KUFOUR AND HIS CRONIES WHO LOOTED AND SHARED AMONG THEIR CHILDREN TO PURPLCHASE HOTEL WAAWAA... YOU DIC ...
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  • Sam,NY 7 years ago

    I DON'T THINK CHA UNDERSTOOD THE CONTENTS BECAUSE IT SAYS, THEY HAVE BEEN OPERATING FOR A DECADE AND THIS MEANS WAS UNDER NPP. I THINK I GOT MY MATHS RIGHT,LOL

  • Koffi Sarpong 7 years ago

    You are the biggest idiot on earth .For real. Did Mahama start up this fake embassy ? You just open your smelly mouth and talk rubbish aboard paaa .Check A-plus he is the one who was running. It Everything. ...
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  • Koffi Sarpong 7 years ago

    You are the biggest idiot on earth .For real. Did Mahama start up this fake embassy ? You just open your smelly mouth and talk rubbish aboard paaa .Check A-plus he is the one who was running. It Everything. ...
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  • Banana 7 years ago

    Wow...and this went on for 10 years without authorities finding out?

  • Babalawo 7 years ago

    If Russians can elect a president for America and Nima issues visas,that's no news at all.

  • Think Big 7 years ago

    Who told you Russians elected a president for the USA? Don't say what you don't know. Thanks

  • Charles Higgins 7 years ago

    You understood him wrongly. He was trying to be sarcastic. Try to have some sense of humour.

  • Mad fish 7 years ago

    Think big if you Don't anything dont ans. Russian has elected president for USA. As American also do to other countries it's not big problem. What American can do going to war's. American kept quite. Russian has elected presi ...
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  • Pelicles 7 years ago

    Russians elected the US president. That is a baseless and in fact a useless excuse by Hillary supporters. The US prides herself as the "only super power" in the whole world and how can the Russians hack into their system and ...
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  • Nii 7 years ago

    Pelicles, if you followed their elections carefully like I did, you will know that indeed there was an external hand influencing the election. So you too don't say what you don't know

  • Farmer George. 7 years ago

    Source of story- FOX NEWS?
    Must be fake news.
    Can't see how this can happen in Ghana. Where's the BNI, the police, the CID, the security service.
    If this is true, it shows the level of incompetence and corruption in the ...
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  • OWEN-NEW YORK 7 years ago

    TRUMP WAS ELECTED BY AMERICANS SO STOP DECEIVING YOURSELF IN AFRICA. RUSSIANS CAN NOT CHOOSE PRESIDENT FOR US AS YOU SIT IN YOUR VILLAGE AND MAKE STUPID COMMENTS . BECAUSE OF ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM AFRICA,ASIA,SOUTH AMERICA AND ...
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  • Esi 7 years ago

    Well said.

    The article is from "Faux" News. Can we get an official State Department comment on this?

  • Charles Higgins 7 years ago

    Es ,it's not from Fox news. Go to CNN to verify it..

  • The real Quebecois 7 years ago

    CNN ??? The lying channel news network!!

  • OMO GHANA PROPER 7 years ago

    Very good point

  • atwei 7 years ago

    Nima has been doing this for a long time. Hmm US.

  • TONY, GREENSBORO, NC. 7 years ago

    THE IS SHOCKING TO BEGIN WITH. A FRIEND OF MINE SENT A LINK OF THE "HORROR STORY" TO ME VIA WHATSAPP AND MY FIRST REACTION WAS TO WRITE BACK TO ASK HIM IF IT WASN'T A FAKE NEWS THAT'S NOW RAMPANT ON THE INTERNET.

    BUT TO M ...
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  • KnYc USMC 7 years ago

    If you are one of the customers who paid such money to this people, my only advice to you is to get a GUN, and kill one of them. That is what I will DO. Our country is a shame no LEADERSHIP.

  • Odom 7 years ago

    President mahama is involved in this fake passport and fake visas in Ghana. He brought the fake Turkish American embassy in the country bcos of money. Mahama is big time thief in the history of Ghana. He hates the Americans b ...
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  • Tom 7 years ago

    No need making this political. It is an indictment on both NPP and NDC. Kuffour,Atta Mills and nod Mahama, all three are equally to blame for this.

  • HONESTY 7 years ago

    A cover up for stealing and exploitation.

  • OBIBA JK 7 years ago

    don't waste time trying to correct some sort of fools who bisect the an+s to bring out waste.by politicizing everything.

  • Miss Etweba 7 years ago

    Folks relax, fake new are abundant these days, Facebook, Fox news, Breinbart conspiracy theories etc.
    The reporter probably wanted to write about visa connections but missed the actual procedure. It's real that there is visa ...
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  • asem 7 years ago

    Barakat Paul,

    When Tilapia emerges from 100 ft below to proclaim that the crocodile has toothache, I would be foolish to doubt him.

    Nyaho is a credible dissident from the matemeho camp.

  • nokware 7 years ago

    American is doing worse than this all over the world.It even sold guns to drug gangs in Mexico.

  • nokware 7 years ago

    American is doing worse than this all over the world.It even sold guns to drug gangs in Mexico.

  • Pinzgoa 7 years ago

    Prez Mahama must come out to deny if he did not operate a fake passport agency in Kumasi Bantama years ago.

  • FM 7 years ago

    A VERY BIG SHAME TO BNI AND THE NDC GOVERNMENT. INCOMPETENT MAHAMA

  • Egbi 7 years ago

    means the operation was running since 2006. which corrupt government was in power then?

  • Jj 7 years ago

    Oh dear true story ... however on CIA web site ....surprise Ghana police at their best "Several suspects remain at large, but Ghanaian police have warrants for their arrest and plan to pursue them. The investigation and searc ...
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  • sam tema 7 years ago

    This shows how Mahama ndc govt are they are useless corrupt animals this useless Mahama will tells us check my track records the end has come.

  • KWADWO 7 years ago

    THIS IS NO NEWS.DIPLOMATIC PASSPORTS GOT MISSING UNDER AKUFO ADDO TRACE THE SCAM TO HIM.

  • nana addo 7 years ago

    Give us dates, locations in Accra, and names. The usual Npp stories which will not wash. Shame

  • Kofi Bantama 7 years ago

    Those are some of the achievements NPP is bragging of. The embassy has started operating some decade ago which means it was started by ex-president Kufour who signed for the operations to begin. Anything started by Kufour tha ...
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  • Ambrose 7 years ago

    cha, if u wer a bit sensible, u would realize that Mahama was not the Prez 10 yrs ago when their activities started. why are u guys so infected with desperation such that u can't even think properly? wise up young one

  • JIM 7 years ago

    CHA YOU ARE VERY STUPID , DO YOU UNDERSTAND ENGLISh? DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OE DECADE?THEN WHAT CHANGE DO YOU NEED, TO CHANGE FATHER? YOUR DAD'S ASS

  • JIM 7 years ago

    AMERICANS MUST LEAVE THE GHANA OR FACE CONSEQUENSES

  • Jo Alaa 7 years ago

    It started during the time of NPP so they might still be involved.

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  • MAN 7 years ago

    REPORT TO SECURITY.

  • Nana Akropong 7 years ago

    More than a decade

  • Joe Navajo 7 years ago

    Fake story. To good to be true!!

  • Kwame 7 years ago

    So some of the visas were legitimate? And they advertised on billboards in Accra? (yet the US Embassy did not know about this?) And flew an American flag? (Why would a fake operation fly an American flag?) Something just does ...
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  • Dan Buduh 7 years ago

    Is this article from the Ghana US Embassy or what? This is very interesting that a house in Accra hosted US flag for 3 days in a week for a decade and this is now exposed! It existed for that long because of corrupt officials ...
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  • Victory 7 years ago

    This not good at all is bad but much of the problem is on this Embassys America will never give visa just like that it sad so ppl are just doing bad

  • kwaku-Holland 7 years ago

    There is more than meets the eye. You can't operate this long without CBP noticing it in the USA. It has to be a state-actor involved.

  • Amuzu 7 years ago

    With a thief representing Ghana as a president, what can you expect. He even arranged with some Turkish companies to sell generating powers for more than triple the price. Dead Goat

  • owusu ivan 7 years ago

    yes. reason up.
    ten years ago ,kuffours time was when it started

  • Kwame 7 years ago

    For 10years? It means all those people are in the USA with fake Ghana passports and FAKE MIGHTY USA VISA. $$$

  • owusu ivan 7 years ago

    for the past ten years. my people and you still saying mahama is corrupt.
    I wonder, if you don't know let me tell you it started from kuffours time npp and was caught in 2016. arresting a thief doesn't mean you are one. he i ...
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  • GHANA IS MOVING FORWARD 7 years ago

    SO THIS STARTED WHEN NPP WAS IN POWER AND THEY COULD NOT ARREST THEM UNTILL MAHAMA CAME AND ARRESTED THEM OOH JM YOU ARE REALLY WORKING.NANA ADDO EVEN AS A FOREIGN MINISTER HELPED TO ESTABLISH THAT FAKE EMBASSY JM WILL ARRES ...
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  • tim 7 years ago

    BOGUS STORY

  • KARKA TRY 7 years ago

    If you believe what these news outlets spew out, you are in-too-deep. Better watch cartoons at least to crack some laughter and improve your diction. Fox, CNN, Yahoo, etc. Really?? You believe them?? The black man should know ...
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  • BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ. 7 years ago

    DEAR H.E.PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, HON.SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY, H.E.UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AMBASSADOR TO GHANA ROBERT JACKSON, DIRECTOR OF FBI AND THE READING PUBLIC OF GHANAWEB.COM,

    IT IS A TRITE KNOWLEDGE THAT THER ...
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  • Kojo Yankee 7 years ago

    Tony, esquirrel or whatever you call yourself,you evidently don't recognize fake news when you see it. Fake embassy issuing real visas,that allow you to enter the US,think brother. US media all engage in proliferation of fals ...
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  • Koffi Sarpong 7 years ago

    SIR..AKUFFO ADDO of course

  • Kofi 7 years ago

    This is what happens when there is no leadership in the country. How can this go on for 10 years in a country with a leader?

  • Chilly Willy 7 years ago

    The US embassy means to tell Ghanaians that they don't know proper embassy building from this old so-called US embassy building? The Ghanaians deserve better than this. Kwame Nkrumah educated Ghanaians about embassy buildings ...
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  • Amenu David 7 years ago

    This shows how fast ,Crever,intellengent and brilliant we GHANAIANS are over the Americans for more than 10 years using fake document in America they ware not able to detect Poor America.

  • Akua 7 years ago

    Is US government going to track down all those Ghanaians who entered US with fake visa going back the past ten years be deported?