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An Open Letter to Ambassador Ohene Agyekum

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  • Adjei amoako 10 years ago

    Its very sad that any time Ghanaians are put in customer service positions we put on an attitude towards other Ghanaians and if people who do not look or sound like us need such service we give the best customer service.

  • ZAMIA, LONDON 10 years ago

    ALL THE STAFF WORKING IN THE GHANAIAN CONSULATE IN ABROAD INCLUDING THE HIGH COMMISSIONERS LACK "COMMON SENSE". HENCE SO MANY PEOPLE WILL NOT GO THROUGH THIS DISGUSTING ATTITUDE OF THEIR STAFF.

  • Asempaneye 10 years ago

    Your experience is Ghanaian...typical! It is situation normal in Ghana even at private businesses. Most Ghanaian workers that provide service to paying customers believes they owe them or it is a burden to do their work.

    R ...
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  • KOO PONG 10 years ago

    Kindly note that Amb. Ohene Agyekum is in charge of the Ghana Embassy, Wash. DC and not our Permanent Mission in New York. The letter should be addressed to Ghana's Permanent Representative to the UN, Amb. Ken Kandah.Though t ...
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  • Addai-Boateng_Mensuro 10 years ago

    Ghana`s Permanent Rep in NY handles UN-related matters,while the Embassy in Washington,DC deals with all others issues - consular,trade, govt-to-govt etc.
    I tell you, the phrase 'same-same' can be said to be applicable to al ...
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  • Very Aggrieved 10 years ago

    KOO PONG, are you writing out of ignorance or what? Do you understanding the differences between the Permanent Representative (for the UN) and the Ambassador who has oversight responsibilities over all the consulates under hi ...
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  • KOJO 10 years ago

    GO THERE URSELF NEXT TIME BUDDY

  • Osabere kotoko 10 years ago

    Learn how to fill simple application paper! Idiot.

  • Addai-Boateng_Mensuro 10 years ago

    'Foolishness'. The attitude of many of our Embassy staff to work really stinks! I have been to one of our missions abroad where I saw staff members watching an Agya Koo Ghanaian movie. Go figure!

  • Very Aggrieved 10 years ago

    Osabere, this was not about how fill application; read the post again. It's about a consulate staff not being responsible to give an approved visa to the post but lied that she had. Stop being ignorant and a lazy fool.

  • Kwasi Longo 10 years ago

    I don't get it, if the guy is "Ghanaian-American" as he says, then why does he need a visa to visit Ghana? Also he should try, as a Ghanaian,to apply for a US visa in Accra and see whether it takes 2 weeks to obtain. Do not b ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    A US visa in Ghana takes only 3 days!

  • asa 10 years ago

    First things first. Make a direct complaint and when you do not get the right attention you can write this lengthy open letter. I processed a passport renewal and it was delivered on time. How do you book a flight before you ...
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  • Artillery 10 years ago

    The guy does not know the different between the Ghana Representative to the UN in new York and the Ghana Ambassador to the USA in Wasgington DC. So his side of the story should be taken with a pinch of salt. Americans are n ...
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  • Very Aggrieved 10 years ago

    I inquired as to where to send my complaint so don't write what you don't know. Hope what happened to me doesn't happen to you or any relative of yours.

  • Very Aggrieved 10 years ago

    You seem to be writing from the NY consulate or from one of the irresponsible consulates. Take a look on one of the visa application forms, number 5 (b) where a ticket number is required. So how possibly can one get a visa fr ...
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  • FOYOOSIS 10 years ago

    Typical Ghanaian attitude and lackadaisical approach to official duty amounts to incompetence at highest level. This lady should be talked to and if necessary warned not to repeat same thing again, but the question is, which ...
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  • Alhaji Brutus 07 29 14 00 10 years ago

    My brother the Embassy in Berlin Germany is far worse.

  • JE Madiba 10 years ago

    Fool l tell what if you made back home stay there. I no were you come from

  • KOFI DAMESI 10 years ago

    MY SON PLEASE THAT'S HOW THE COMMUNIST PARTY NDC OPERATE IN ANY EMBASSY AROUND THE WORLD.

  • K Boateng 10 years ago

    This is not about NDC or NPP, it's rather about some irresponsible, incompetent and arrogant staff who think they must be carried shoulder high. A friend in Harrisburg went through a similar ordeal in 2003 where he left for G ...
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  • GBC 1 10 years ago

    well, bro. next time use travel agent, they work hand in hand, you re trying to be smart for buying your ticket online, that's what you get...

  • K Boateng 10 years ago

    Bro, you may be the smartest person on earth but I would urge you to check on the Ghana consulate visa application form, item number 5 (b) where a plane ticket number is required before a visa issued.

  • Kobena 10 years ago

    It is symptomatic of a failing nation. Nothing works! Seven months on, not a single appointee has declared his/her assets. Meaninwhile the stealing has begun in earnest!

    Unless it is an emergency, in which case you are b ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    My friend kindly get a Ghana passport and it will put a stop to all this.Never I mean never trust the Ghanaian authorities to deliver things on time.

  • Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

    Some ex-Ghanaians do really have nerves. When Ghanaian citizens attempt to obtain visa to visit family outside Ghana it take months if not years. Former Ghanaians in the Diaspora who are responsible do take the process of ob ...
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  • EFO 10 years ago

    I encontered a similar situation in 2009. After I was told that I couldn't get my VISA on time, I just boarded the Plane and "bribed" somebody at Kotoka $50 and they stamped my Passport with a valid Visa. Be very smart next t ...
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  • K. Boateng 10 years ago

    You're being very naive and childish with your attributive response. What the US embassy or consulate and for that matter any foreign consulate in Ghana, does have nothing whatsoever to do with ordinary citizens of their resp ...
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  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    I believe this thing has happened to you before if my memory serves me right.

    Personally, I can't vouch for any of the workers at the consulate or embassy because their attitude sink. I had not gone through such, but anyt ...
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  • K. Boateng 10 years ago

    Nyansasem is right; I had a very horrendous ordeal at the Ghana's consulate in D.C. last year when I had to send my uncle's body to Ghana for burial. A visa I had applied for for almost one month was not coming so I called th ...
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  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    I believe after reading your frustration here, I decided to go the consulate myself rather than sending it to them and that was why I remember your case.

    Thanks. Because of going through this frustration, I have been enter ...
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  • Nana Dwomor 10 years ago

    I hear there is one lady from Nkoranza at the NY consulate who is perpetuating all these nonsense. She has no respect for no one simply because she has a "big man" somewhere screwing her ashawo ass. But she should wait becaus ...
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  • Ananta_Hene 10 years ago

    This sad situation persists because many of us would rather pour scorn on,and find fault with the 'victim'.
    Bsaed on the set of facts presentented by the complainant in this case,the official fingered simply exhibited poor c ...
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  • K. Boateng 10 years ago

    here we go; so the writer of this article was not making it up, after all. There are countless testimonies from many people who have suffered such nasty instances at the hands of Ghana consulate officials. How long is it goin ...
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