Owners of over 60,000 passports nowhere to be found

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July 28, 2017 11:37 AM

The development has been blamed on the activities of some ‘Goro Boys’ (middle men).

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Mohammed Tijani has revealed that there are over 60,000 unclaimed passports at the Passport Office because their owners are nowhere to be found.

He said that this could be due to the activities of some ‘Goro Boys’ (middle men) or the owners not being interested in the passports any longer.

“You will be given a date to come for your passport and within 21 days you must go and find whether your passport is ready or not. A lot of people have gone through the system and haven’t gone back for their passports. People are not able to claim their passports, we have over 60,000 that have not been claimed; they are there,” he told Accra FM.

Mr. Tijani added: “When I visited the Passport Office, we did random sampling, picked passports, called the numbers and the people we called were not there, some of them said that they hadn’t filled for any passport form.

“This happens because somebody looks big and called somebody to fill a passport form for him or probably the applicants just gave the information to another person to fill and get a passport for them. They may have given a number that may belong to a ‘Goro Boy’ or probably they gave wrong numbers. These are some of the reasons these passports have not been claimed. Or somebody filled it properly though but abandoned it.”

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Owners of over 60,000 passports nowhere to be found

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Mohammed Tijani has revealed that there are over 60,000 unclaimed passports at the Passport Office because their owners are nowhere to be found.

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