Deputy Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister Kwaku Amparatwum-Sarpong has denied reports that he said the ministry was not aware of the Ghana Card is accepted as an E-Passport.
The Deputy Minister in a statement explained that “my attention has been drawn to an interview I granted Akoma FM on Thursday morning which seeks to claim I stated that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no knowledge of the project to transform Ghana card to a travelling document or an e-passport.”
“For the records, at no stage of the interview did I say that. Whoever is behind that story is being mischievous or can’t translate the Twi language to good English.”
He indicated that he mentioned that the Ministry was fully aware of the project during the interview.
“At no point did I deny knowledge of it. I plead with those of you who have elected to go to town with an inverted story to kindly locate and listen to the interview,” he added.
Mr. Ampratwum-Sarpong further explained that he was quite reluctant to provide details of the project since it is an initiative of the office of the Vice President.
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“This is a project which was initiated and being managed by the office of the Vice President and not the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”
“It is therefore difficult for me to be the person to give better and further particulars. At best it’s the Veep office where the project managers are based.”
His clarification follows news of the recognition of the Ghana Card globally as an electronic passport that can be read and verified at all International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) compliant borders and later reports that said the deputy minister has said the Foreign Affairs Ministry was not privy to the recognition details.
The recognition was done at a ceremony, at the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal in Canada on Wednesday [February 9, 2022], where Ghana was officially presented with the certificate to make the Ghana Card an e-passport to be accepted at 44,000 airports across the globe.
By: Stella Annan | myactiveonline.com Twitter @activetvgh





