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June 6, 2021
Deputy Minister designate for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong has describe as unacceptable the cumbersome procedures Ghanaian applicants have to go through in acquiring a Ghanaian passport.
According to him when given the node he promised to assist the sector minister ensure the Passport Office improves on their services to enhance the turnaround time in passport acquisition.
The deputy minister-designate was particularly not enthused about the bureaucracies’ applicants have to go through to acquire their passports and noted further that the Ministry will do all in its power to make the necessary interventions to ensure efficiency at the Passport Office and also announcing that passport acquisition in the country has been decentralised.
Answering to claims that campaign contributions might have been generating an increasingly deleterious effect on the quality of Ghanaian diplomatic representation overseas who are mostly politicians instead of career diplomats, he said it was time to examine research about political versus career appointments.
He agreed to suggestions that empowering long-serving career officials ensures that the most experienced officials are influential in the policy process, incentivizes the development of expertise through a career in government service and added that the merit-based system improves performance of the bureaucracy by cultivating valuable expertise.
The Mampong lawmaker made this known when he appeared before the Appointment Committee on Friday, June 4, 2021 to be vetted.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com