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The French Embassy in Ghana has refused to accept cash payment in the new Ghana cedi.Since the introduction of the new currency on Tuesday, Visa applicants carrying the new cedi notes have been turned away.Joy News has learnt that officials of the Embassy insist that all payments should be made in the old currency and that has angered many visit applications.“It is not normal to say that they are not taking the new Ghana cedis. Since many months everybody is aware that there will be a new Ghana cedi,” an applicant told Joy News’ Elloeny Amandey.Another applicant said: “Because I was having the new Ghana cedi notes they didn’t allow me in so I had to go and change into the old ones.”Notices have been pasted on notice boards citing technical challenges in conversion between the embassy here in Accra and the headquarters in the French capital, Paris.Officials have declined to explain reasons for the action six months before the Bank of Ghana gave notice about the coming of the new notes.
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