The Vice Chairperson of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Committee, Cletus Seidu Dapalah, has accused the previous New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration of failing to address alleged service passport racketeering that he says began in 2023.
Speaking on JoyFM’s Top Story on Monday, November 9, Mr Dapalah questioned the basis of the Minority’s claims over letters bearing the signature of the Ministry’s Chief Director, which allegedly approved passports for individuals holding public positions they did not occupy.
The Minority has presented the letters as evidence of irregularities, but the Ministry’s spokesperson, Fred Doho, has reportedly said the signatures were forged and the documents did not originate from the Ministry.
Mr Dapalah argued that the Minority had not sufficiently verified the information before making it public.
“Let me state clearly that oversight is a job that comes with in-depth analysis of information gathered. When you gather information, you see the information, you interrogate the information, you double-check your facts before you put it out there.
“That is what my friends on the other side feel. They haven’t been in-depth with their data. They have not double-checked.
“They have no facts as far as this issue is concerned. They just got some information, and they ran with it to the media to throw dust in the eyes of Ghanaians,” he said.
He maintained that the alleged racketeering did not begin under the current administration, insisting that it started during the NPP’s tenure.
“The issue of service passports racketeering started back in 2023. Who was in office then? It was their government (NPP) that was in power,” he said.
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