Ghana to start issuing biometric passports by
April 2010
By Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, Ghanadot
Accra, Oct 2, Ghanadot - Ghana’s
Foreign Minister, Alhaji Muhammed Mummuni has vehemently
hinted that all Ghanaian passport holders will from April
next year be migrated onto a new machine readable biometric
passport.
Alhaji Mumumi disclosed this when he met the Ghanaian
community in Washington, USA.
He said the advanced security features of the new biometric
passport will not only help protect the identity of
citizens, it will also eliminate the possibility of
fraudsters acquiring a Ghanaian passport when they are not
citizens.
“We are just about to migrate to the machine readable
passport,” he said, adding it will be in compliance with the
International Civil Aviation Organisation ultimatum.
He said government has installed the appropriate equipments
for the production of the with the
plan to migrate to a biometric passport was first started
under the previous administration.
Ghanadot
