Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey

Passport Office: Politicians Are Tired Of Caring Your Cross – Foreign Minister To Corrupt Public Servant Workers. 

Passport Office: Politicians Are Tired Of Caring Your Cross – Foreign Minister To Corrupt Public Servant Workers. 

  The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, is enraged over the illegal and exorbitant fees being charged at the passport office. She was infuriated over the ongoing exploitation, pitching the acquisition of a Ghanaian passport to the highest bidder as against the first come, first serve procedure. She has since informed all staff who have worked at the office for over a year not to return next week, Monday, August 21, 2023, as new officers would replace them. “Anybody who has been here for more than a year, from Monday, please do not come back…
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We’ll Prosecute All Corrupt Passport Office Workers – Minister

We’ll Prosecute All Corrupt Passport Office Workers – Minister

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has revealed that there is an ongoing investigation into the alleged corrupt activities of some passport officials at the Passport Office. The Minister lamented that the reports of extortions and corruption-related activities have become one too many and a major concern for the ministry. When she stormed the Passport Office on Monday, August 14, 2023, she expressed her displeasure with the ongoing extortion and corruption. The Minister was particularly upset that passport office employees treated applicants with contempt. As a result, the Minister has advised that personnel seconded to…
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Why Charge Applicants GH¢2,000, GH¢3,000 For A Passport? – Angry Foreign Affairs Minister Asks

Why Charge Applicants GH¢2,000, GH¢3,000 For A Passport? – Angry Foreign Affairs Minister Asks

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has gone berserk over the demand of GH¢2,000, GH¢3,000 by middlemen who connive with some staff for the acquisition of passport. Describing it as wrong, the minister wondered how a GH¢100 standard service and a GH¢150 for expedited service be shot up astronomically to GH¢2000 and GH¢3000. In an interview with the media after an unannounced visit to the passport office in Accra on Monday, August 14, 2023, she said, "Just two days ago, the reports in the Daily Guide newspaper that the issue of goro people involved in our…
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