The Minister of Foreign Affairs, , has disclosed that he has nullified an agreement between Fred Kwarteng, a local IT staff member dismissed over alleged corrupt practices, and a top official at the Ghanaian Embassy in Washington DC.
Explaining the reason for nullifying the agreement, Ablakwa stated that the 2023 agreement was discovered to be unauthorised and illegal, and as such, the arrangement will no longer be honored.
According to him, he will provide an update in the coming days in on the progress made regarding the sanctions taken against implicated staff at the embassy, including frozen accounts, among other measures. "It is worth announcing that a recently discovered 2023 unauthorized, opaque and illegal agreement between Fred Kwarteng and a top official at the Washington Embassy has been declared a nullity and will no longer be respected (more on this plus frozen accounts and other remedial actions will be presented in greater detail when I address next week)," he posted on Facebook on Friday, May 30, 2025.
Ablakwa, who is also the Member of for North Tongu, further clarified that no new appointments or recruitments have been made to fill vacant positions at the embassy, refuting claims that a new group of party-affiliated individuals is being hired for the jobs. "Contrary to false and baseless claims, there have been no new recruitments to replace lost jobs in our Washington embassy - we have an adequate stock of distinguished and astute diplomats to lead ongoing reforms - this patriotic consequential reset agenda aimed at restoring the image of our diplomatic missions abroad cannot be reduced to "jobs for the boys", he added.
