Visas Office Messed Up

It has risen up out of the halls of the Ghana Passports Office that the servers they were utilizing as a part of managing the biometric enlistment activity introduced in 2010 was at that point obsolete before being introduced.

The sensible utilization of the servers which were bought in 2005 when the activity was at first reserved to have begun deferred and rather than buying new ones, the same were introduced five years after the fact when they "were old".



This disclosure was made by the executive of international IDs, Alexander Grant Ntrakwa when he was reacting to addresses from a media's area amid a question and answer session held to overhaul people in general on the procedures and methods in gaining visas.

"the hardware was acquired in 2005 from Berlin, however conveyed in 2010 by which time it was at that point out of date, so at the time that we were executing the biometric enrollment exercise, it was proper new machines were bought, yet we felt free to introduced the gear that was obtained in 2005. Along these lines, from the word go, we understood that the servers were at that point out of date, and since 2010, there has been no fitting re-tooling similarly as international IDs office is concerned," Mr Ntrakwa expressed.

As per him, when "I expected office in August 26, last year, we had around 25,000 international IDs that were alright to be printed, yet the workplace had just two single space printers which later separated."

This, he said, made it troublesome for them to handle the application shapes that were prepared and had been gone into the server, consequently the postponement in finishing a large portion of the structures they got.

"When the service got us two machines on the 16 of May 2015, we had collected again more than 26,000 visas shapes that were alright t be printed, not those holding up to be verified and we had following printed more than 40,000 structures."

The chief of travel permits likewise expressed that, there were no finished visa frames at his outfit holding up to be printed saying, "Right now we don't have identifications that are alright that have not been printed," he illuminated.

He was decided that, recently introduced servers have been made accessible to begin preparing every one of the structures that will be screened therefore and are prepared to be printed.