Ghana: Washington DC Embassy Closure …Majority Defends Okudzeto Ablakwa

The Majority individuals on the Parliament Committee on International Affairs, has come to the protection of the Minister of International Affairs, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, stressing he didn’t err in temporarily shutting down the Ghana Embassy in Washington DC.

In accordance with the majority they would no longer enable self-looking for americans to tarnish the image of the country underneath the guise of the alleged mistaken acts dedicated in its embassies.

At a media briefing in Accra yesterday, Mr Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, a ranking member of the committee, acknowledged that the closure of the embassy as a results of the defective practices might well perchance well additionally mute slightly be viewed as a step in the precise direction since it sends a wonderful warning to workers of the opposite embassies and missions.

He indicated that the resetting agenda of govt underneath President John Dramani Mahama might well perchance well well no longer be finished if the country’s diplomatic facilities were allowed to be ancient inappropriately.

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Mr Vanderpuije celebrated that after the planned upkeep and precise auditing the embassy might well perchance well well be opened again.

He urged the Minister to take dangle of steps to weed out the defective nuts in all its embassies in a single other country in pronounce to reclaim the country’s image which had been critically broken.

Ghana’s embassy in Washington, D.C. was closed down temporarily to enable for investigations into alleged defective practices applied by a workers of the embassy on Monday, May well perhaps well perhaps 26, 2025.

The defective practices, along side unlawful further prices, which had been occurring for nearly about five years, were uncovered by a varied audit team who assembled just a few months ago to compare alleged defective practices on the embassy.

A teach issued underneath the hand of Mr Ablakwa acknowledged all workers individuals posted to the Washington embassy had been recalled straight while the embassy’s IT division has been promptly dissolved.

The teach talked about that Mr Fred Kwarteng, a workers member from the embassy’s IT division, has been brushed off for creating an unauthorised fragment on the embassy’s online page that diverted visa and passport applicants to his firm, Ghana Wander back and forth Consultants (GTC).

“The unlawful further prices, that were no longer licensed by the ministry and Parliament as required underneath the Charges and Costs Act, differ from $29.75 to $60 per applicant. Investigations expose that he and his collaborators operated this unlawful plan for on the least five years.