Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has announced that the Washington DC embassy of the country has reopened and issued over 800 visas yesterday on the first day of resumption.
In a Facebook post, the North Tongu MP said “I expect this level of efficiency, professionalism, and integrity to continue.”
“Let me commend our fresh team of seasoned diplomats for the great job so far in implementing our systems overhaul and institutional fumigation.” – He added
The Minister announced the temporal closure of the embassy following the discovery of serious levels of allegations of corruption against some staff. According to him some of the officials involved in the issues have been dismissed.
Read his full post:
From the briefing I have received, our reopened embassy in Washington DC issued over 800 visas yesterday on the first day of resumption.
I expect this level of efficiency, professionalism and integrity to continue.
Let me commend our fresh team of seasoned diplomats for the great job so far in implementing our systems overhaul and institutional fumigation.
This is testament that Ghanaian diplomats excel when provided with the right ecosystem and leadership.
Contrary to false and baseless claims, there have been no new recruitments to replace lost jobs in our Washington embassy — we have an adequate stock of distinguished and astute diplomats to lead ongoing reforms — this patriotic consequential reset agenda aimed at restoring the image of our diplomatic missions abroad cannot be reduced to “jobs for the boys.”
Meanwhile, it is worth announcing that a recently discovered 2023 unauthorized, opaque and illegal agreement between Fred Kwarteng and a top official at the Washington Embassy has been declared a nullity and will no longer be respected (more on this plus frozen accounts and other remedial actions will be presented in greater detail when I address Parliament next week).
For God and Country
