it is not to blame<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for the reported shortage, blaming it on the Controller and Accountant General\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n\u201cIt is the Controller and Accountant General\u2019s department that buys and supplies the banks with the forms. We don\u2019t sell the forms, it is the Controller and Accountant General\u2019s Department that is responsible for that,\u201d Director of Passports, Alexander Grant added.<\/p>\n
But\u00a0Mr. Cudjoe says they have enough forms in stock for the banks should they run out of forms.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have about 135,000 passport forms in stock. It\u2019s left with the banks\u2026to purchase and sell to the public. Zenith banks has bought about 20,000 forms, Unibank, 20,000 forms, NIB, 5,000, UBA 5,000, Bank of Africa, 2000, Adb, 9,000. Access bank, 6,000, GCB, Fidelity bank and Ecobank purchased theirs at the latter part of last year and I believe they still have enough forms left.\u00a0Apart from these quantities that were purchased, we still have about 125,000 passport forms in stock. So if somebody says that passport forms are short in supply, we don\u2019t know where it is coming from.”<\/p>\n
The Passport Office had suggested the banks were perhaps hoarding the forms in anticipation that prices were going to go up.<\/p>\n
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By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n