Investigation shows passport cartel but director says it's challenged Print E-mail
Written by Sorbor George   
Thursday, 13 December 2007

A Star Radio investigation shows the existence of a passport-crime ring in the Passport Section at the Foreign Ministry despite efforts to transform the section.


Our reporter who visited the section saw non-passport staff shuttling between their offices and the passport section, finding potential passport applicants.
 

Passport Director Mary Broh admitted the existence of a passport-lobby group but claimed her tenure has managed to break it by eighty percent.
 

Madam Broh however, told Star Radio remnants of the passport crime ring are still around and posing problems.
 

She expressed the hope they would be flushed out of the passport section gradually.
 

The Passport Director also disclosed that diplomatic negotiations are taking place to make the ECOWAS Passports gain international status.
 

Madam Broh said if the negotiations succeed for the ECOWAS Passport to carry visas, the Liberian passports would be withdrawn and replaced with the ECOWAS Passport.
 

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