What A Hell Is Happening Between Spanish Embassy And Ministry Of Foreign Affairs?
The situation in Spanish Embassy for many of the Ghanaians that want to endorse their decuments is unbearable, and we are fed up of both Spanish Embassy and the office of Ministry Of Foreign Affairs.

I do not know what is happening but whatever may be the case, we, the citizens of Ghana remains the victims of all these unnecessary acts.

For many years that I have been in Spain, all the decuments that need to be endorsed are sent to Office Of Foreign Affairs for the Director to give his/her stamp and signature. We then send that decuments to Spanish Embassy for them to do the same for us. This is what is required from us before any decuments issued in Ghana can be accepted as legal. Really I don’t understant why we have to go through all these process for them to accept what is already legal, but who is here to talk for us, for our representative is a toothless dog, he can only make noise in our ears but when it is time for him to act he’s a living but dead.

Recently, there have been a changes in Ministry Of Foreign Affairs. Holding a genuine decument like birth Certificate issue in Ghana, the office of Foreign Affairs demand for it an affidavit before they issue another Sheet testifying that affidavit. I therefore ask, if really somebody may answer me, the reason why we have to declare in court before something issue in Ghana can be endorsed?. Can’t the Office of Foreign Affairs trace the origen of such decuments to verify its genuineness?, for almost all the decuments demanded from Ghana are issued in Accra and those respective offices are as close as their hall to their bedrooms in their houses.

That affidavit is not our problem, for many of us have gone in for it but to our surprise, Spanish Embassy is not accepting the new method of affidavit attaching our decuments. For about five months now, the up and down of many Ghanaians in Spanish Embassy is just embarrassing. Well, to my judgement it is not norrnal to declare in court for a decument which is coming from police headquarters signed by Director General of Police. It seems all that is needed from people living in Europe is euros and more euros but when it comes to walfare of us, our authorities close their eyes, that’s why we have to pay two hundred euros for a Police Report while someone living in Ghana is paying fifteen Ghana Cedis for it.

These people are joking with our lives in this country. It seems they have not been in western land, wondering like a birth, struggling day and night just to have something to eat and playing hid and seek with olmost everywhere police. Now to have a hope that we may live in peace as many of us are qualified to apply for our residence, our own people are tossing us to and fro, just to satisfy their selfishness.

The fact is without the endorsement of those decuments from the two parts, we can not process anything here, meaning many of us without residence will not have any opportunity to do anything. These are the laws here and everybody knows that they are not going to change it because of Ghanaians living here. Friend of mine has gone in for another Police Report because what he was holding is expired as the period of its validity is three months, just because Spanish Embassy refused to endorse it. Last Friday many people were crying in front of Spanish Embassy, I was told, because they rejected their decuments to be endorsed.

I just want to know when this particular problem will be solve, for we are tired of you people and we need our decuments endorsed, with or without affidavit.

NKETIA THOMAS Vitoria-Gasteiz SPAIN