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Foreign Minister Alhaji Muhammed Mummuni has given the strongest hint ever that all Ghanaian passport holders will from April next year be migrated onto a new machine readable biometric passport.
During an interaction with Ghanaians in Washington, Alhaji Mumumi 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
The plan to migrate to a biometric passport was first started under the previous administration.
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Source: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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