COVID-19 restrictions caused 40,000 passport backlog - Passport Office

The Director of the Passport Office, Mohammed Habib Idris, has disclosed that his outfit is making efforts to clear a backlog of 40,000 passports that are yet to be printed.

And you know passport booklets are not printed in Ghana, but it is not only Ghana that imports passport booklets from outside our jurisdiction.

You know so many countries do that.

He said persons seconded to the Passport Office were to serve for six months, but according to Mr Idris, some of them have been at post for more than a year, fuelling the perception of corruption at the office.

“One of the problems that passport offices encounter is the longevity of officers assigned to the passport office

In terms of personnel, we are taking measures to rationalise the human resources that we have at the passport office.

“You know that the passport office relies on the expertise of stakeholder agencies for the processing and acquisition of passports