The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that a team of IT experts has been deployed to Ghana’s Embassy in Washington, D.C., to reconfigure its website and payment platforms to do away with all unofficial and unauthorised links associated with the IT system of the Embassy.
A statement issued on Tuesday May 26 by the Ministry, announcing a plan to reopen the embassy on Thursday May 29, stated that following the recall of Home-Based Staff and the suspension of Local Staff of the Embassy, a team of seasoned diplomats led by an astute diplomat from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been tasked and complete ongoing structural reforms to run the Mission to ensure total systems overhaul, restore integrity in the Embassy’s operations
“It is worth noting that an Information Technology (IT) team has already been deployed to reconfigure the website and payment platforms to do away with all unofficial and unauthorized links associated with the IT system of the Embassy.
“The Ministry wishes to inform the general public that the Embassy is set to reopen on Thursday, 29th May, 2025. We assure that measures have been put in place to clear the backlog. Any inconvenience resulting from our necessary interventions is deeply regretted. All inquiries may be channeled to the following for prompt resolution,” the statement said.
On Monday, May 26, the sector Minister, Samuel Okudzeto announced that the embassy shall be closed for a few days from Monday, May 26, as the government finalised ongoing restructuring and systems overhaul.
The Minister also stated that all Ministry of Foreign Affairs staff posted to the Washington embassy have been recalled home with immediate effect.
The embassy’s IT department had been promptly dissolved, Mr Ablakwa further stated. Additionally, all locally recruited staff at the embassy were suspended.
This development came on the back of a damning audit report on the operations of the embassy especially its IT department.
Following the report, Mr Ablakwa announced the sacking of one Fred Kwarteng, a local staff recruited on August 11, 2017 to work in the embassy’s IT department.
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