Dennis Miracles Aboagye, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications Director, has accused Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa of having prior knowledge of alleged irregularities in the issuance of Ghanaian passports.
The NPP Communications Director questioned Ablakwa’s claim that he was unaware of the activities within the Ministry.
Miracles Aboagye quizzed how Ablakwa could establish that no Diplomatic Passports had been implicated in the alleged scheme while retaining that he had no prior knowledge of the activities.
Speaking at a press conference alongside members of the Minority Caucus in Parliament, Miracles Aboagye stated, “How did the Minister know that there were no diplomatic passports if he claims he has no knowledge of the scheme? A scheme that is being orchestrated under your blind side, as you claim, by people within your ministry, which you are only getting to know after we brought it to the fore”.
“Is it the case that those at the ministry who are raising issues and saying that the Minister knows about this scheme because he knew why he appointed this particular gentleman as Director of Passports even though he doesn’t qualify and kept him there all this while from last year till now? He knew about the scheme. Can he give us a response for that?” he asked.
Miracles Aboagye further revealed that the passport matter was not the only issue the NPP intend to raise about the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He added, “There are a lot more issues at the Foreign Affairs Ministry that are going to be discussed in the next few days. We have them in hard copy evidence. We have them in hard copies, soft copies, saved in the cloud everywhere, and there is no absolute way that any of this evidence can go anywhere,” he said.
“We in the New Patriotic Party support the Minority Caucus in Parliament. We are fully behind the committee members, and we are calling on the Speaker to listen and hear the call of the Ranking Member and the Foreign Affairs Committee members for a full parliamentary inquiry,” he said.
“The Minister who is supervising this fraud cannot be the one showing us reports of a committee he has established,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Minority in Parliament has raised concerns over an alleged passport-for-sale scheme involving officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Passport Office, claiming that about 300 Ghanaians have travelled to Europe and other destinations using Diplomatic and Service Passports obtained through the arrangement.
Samuel Abu Jinapor, the Ranking Member on Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, made the allegation at a media briefing on Sunday, November 8, 2026.
He claimed that officials facilitated the issuance of the travel documents to individuals who were not qualified to obtain them.
According to Abu Jinapor, the alleged operation was run through a travel and tour business, with customers paying money to secure the passports.
The MP fingered one Ibrahim Wallee as the alleged manager of the operation in Ghana, while Bright Yeboah Owusu reportedly served as his agent in Europe.
Abu Jinapor further alleged that applicants were assigned government positions and official designations they did not hold to make them eligible for Diplomatic or Service Passports.
In some instances, Abu Jinapor claimed, the positions given to applicants did not even exist.
He further explained that the documents were marketed as a means of travelling to certain countries without visas, particularly to individuals who might otherwise have difficulty obtaining the required travel authorisation.
The Minority Ranking Member also alleged that some personnel of the Foreign Affairs Ministry assisted travellers at the airport to avoid or minimise scrutiny by officers of the Ghana Immigration Service.
“As at now, our sources indicate that some 300 Ghanaians have travelled to Europe and other destinations using diplomatic and service passports allegedly issued through this arrangement,” he said.
The allegations come on the heels of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs handing over two of its officials to the Ghana Police Service for further investigations and possible prosecution over their alleged roles in an illegal Service Passport issuance scheme.
The officers are Acting Director of Passports, Mahama Yahaya Amantana, and a junior Foreign Service Officer, Alhassan Sumani.
Both have been interdicted as investigations into the alleged irregularities continue.
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