Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Clarifies, I was misrepresented in “Ghana Card now E-passport interview”

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Hon. Kwaku Ampratwum Sarpong says he has been misrepresented following an interview he granted Akoma Fm on the Ghana Card being accepted as E-passport in a number of countries around the world.

He says he never said that his ministry had no knowledge of the Project to transform the Ghana Card to a travelling document or e-passport.

“For the records, at no stage of the interview did I say that.

He explains that on the contrary, he actually did mention that the ministry is aware of the project.

Below is the full statement :

Re: GHANA CARD NOW E-PASSPORT

My attention has been drawn to an interview I granted Akoma Fm on Thursday morning which seeks to claim I stated that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no knowledge of the Project to transform Ghana card to a travelling document or an e- passport.
For the records, at no stage of the interview did I say that.
Whoever is behind that story is being mischievous or can’t translate the twi language to good English .
In fact in the course of the interview I did mention that the ministry of Foreign Affairs is aware of the Project .
This project however, was initiated and being managed by the office of the Vice President and not the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is therefore difficult for me to be the person to give better and further particulars. At best it’s the Veep’s office where the project managers are based.
At no point did I deny knowledge of the project.
I plead with those of you who have elected to go to town with inverted story to kindly locate and listen to the interview.

Sgnd
HON. KWAKU AMPRATWUM SARPONG
DEPUTY MINISTER, MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION