Some citizens who have applied for passports are enraged because passport offices around the nation are unable to give their passports despite the passing of their collecting dates.
Starr News sources claim that the passport office is currently only handling priority cases since the supplier of the passport booklet has refused to provide due to unpaid payments.
“The Chinese firm that supplies the booklet hasn’t given us any since a while ago since we owe them money.
The last three weeks have seen us unable to print new passports.
We are hoping to break the deadlock soon,” a passport office employee told Starr News on Thursday.
A frustrated passport applicant Mavis Adjei told Starr News ” I was supposed to receive my booklet last week and they keep tossing me and I need to travel next week”.
Another applicant James Quaye said he applied for a passport in Koforidua in the hope of receiving it in time for a visa appointment but now he is caught in the situation.
Attempts for a response from the passport office on the development have proved futile as our calls to them have remained unanswered.