{"id":94721,"date":"2015-02-27T05:43:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T05:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=94721"},"modified":"2015-02-27T05:43:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T05:43:39","slug":"ghanaian-employee-at-british-commission-dismissed-over-visa-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=94721","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian employee at British Commission dismissed over visa fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Ghanaian employee at the British High Commission implicated in a visa fraud has been dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>A press statement issued by the British High Commission noted that Ghana&#8217;s law enforcement agency is now &#8220;investigating allegations of fraud and conspiracy relating to visa applications&#8221; against the accused.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission said &#8220;though such cases are extremely rare,&#8221; it \u00a0takes allegations against any of its staff &#8220;extremely seriously and will always take the strongest possible action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This issue came to light precisely because of the strong internal audit and control mechanisms we have in place to monitor our entire visa operation,&#8221; the Commission added.<\/p>\n<p>The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin also confirmed the dismissal on his twitter handle.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today we dismissed a Ghanaian employee of the British High Commission for gross misconduct related to visa fraud: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Bgi57YpRtn\">http:\/\/t.co\/Bgi57YpRtn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Benjamin (@JonBenjamin19) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonBenjamin19\/status\/570992781977526273\">February 26, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ghanaian employee at the British High Commission implicated in a visa fraud has been dismissed. A press statement issued by the British High Commission noted that Ghana&#8217;s law enforcement agency is now &#8220;investigating allegations of fraud and conspiracy relating to visa applications&#8221; against the accused. The Commission said &#8220;though such cases are extremely rare,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":94748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-94721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}