A Ghanaian parliamentarian has questioned whether the country needs a new ePassport.Patrick Yaw Boamah, a member of parliament for Okaikoi Central Constituency, said this week that the government is moving too fast on the plan.In late May, Foreign Affairs Minister Hannah Tetteh revealed that the country was launching a new passport project to enable the nation to meet international standards as well as help Ghanaians in the diaspora to acquire passport in Ghana's 57 missions and consulates worldwide.She disclosed the ministry is currently "going through a procurement process to build up the infrastructure across all our embassies."In December 2014, Tetteh said the upgrade would enable easier transmission of data from the passport onto a computer for verification, and that the new passport will run concurrently with the current ones and will be valid for all foreign travels.Tetteh also directed Ghana's missions abroad to procure biometric passport equipment to meet an International Civil Aviation Organisation directive (ICAO).
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