Dr Samuel Ayeh, a Presidential Aide at the Office of the President, has dropped a fresh update revealing that a suspect in the alleged passport scandal has confessed to forging the signature of a former Chief Director to secure Service Passports.
According to Dr Samuel Ayeh, the suspect, identified only as Walle, confessed to a committee set up to investigate the alleged sale of diplomatic and service passports.
Dr Ayeh revealed that the suspect admitted that he repeatedly practised the former Chief Director’s signature to make the forgery appear genuine.
Speaking on JoyNews on November 9, 2026, Dr Ayeh stated, “He has confessed to the committee that they actually forged the signature of the chief director at the time to secure the service passport. He says that he practised it several times to make sure that it happens”.
“He said that they got the letter, the letterhead of the chief director, and all the people involved in this whole activity. He made sure that Sumana Alhassan was the one in charge of making sure that he got the letterhead so that they could forge the signatures and issue it to the passport office to get it,” he added.
He further disclosed that the investigation was initiated after a petition was received by a minister on October 8, adding that the committee was formed the following day and begun taking statements from witnesses by October 13.
“This is a minister who receives a petition on 8th October. By 9th October, he has set up a committee to investigate the matter. By 13th October, witnesses have started speaking on the matter,” he explained.
Meanwhile, 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.
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