Foreign Affairs Ministry Cancels 10 Illegally Issued Service Passports in Alleged $29,000 Scheme

Foreign Affairs Ministry interdicts two officers over illegal service passport scheme

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has interdicted two officers over an alleged illegal scheme involving the issuance of Ghanaian Service Passports to unqualified individuals in exchange for money. The officers are the Acting Director of Passports, Mahama Yahaya Amantana, and a junior Foreign Service Officer, Alhassan Sumani, who has been identified in petitions received by …

Foreign Affairs Ministry interdicts two officials over alleged illegal sale of Service Passports

Foreign Affairs Ministry cancels 10 illegally issued service passports in alleged $29,000 scheme

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has cancelled 10 illegally issued Ghanaian Service Passports following preliminary findings into an alleged passport-for-sale scheme that has been operating since 2023. In a statement issued in Accra on November 8, 2026, the Ministry disclosed that the investigation followed two petitions alleging irregularities in the issuance of Service Passports. The […]

Diplomatic Passports On Sale – Minority Blows Alarm

Samuel Abu Jinapor   The Minority in Parliament has raised the alarm over an alleged scheme involving the sale and irregular issuance of Ghanaian diplomatic and service passports to unqualified Read More...

Foreign Affairs Ministry rejects diplomatic passport sale claims amid service passport fraud probe

By: Nana Karikari, Senior Global Affairs Correspondent  Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has firmly dismissed reports alleging that its diplomatic passports are available for purchase. Official statements confirm that ongoing fraud investigations focus exclusively on the illegal issuance of service passports.   Government investigators launched a probe after discovering unauthorized processing within the […]

No evidence Ghana’s Diplomatic Passports are being sold – Foreign Affairs Ministry clarifies

Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Ministry says there is no evidence of Diplomatic Passport sales, as investigations identify 10 allegedly irregularly issued Service Passports.