Passport applicants in the Ashanti region have had to be turned away because the regional office of the Ghana Immigration Service lacks a work station. The sector is among the five centers within the country expected to accept, process and issue the new biometric passports. Applicants from the Northern sector of the country are however in a limbo when the exercise will commence. Acting Regional Staff Officer of the service, Seth Agyekum, also have no idea when the programme will take off in the Ashanti region. He said what the officials are doing is to help applicants fill out their new application forms and to direct them to proceed to Accra to put in the application and complete the process. Listen to Luv FM’s Elton John Brobbey’s report in the attached audio.