Ghana Embassy in Washington

Ghana's Embassy in Washington, D C, is scheduled to reopen today, Thursday, May 29, 2025 after being temporarily closed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa,

The facility was shut down on Monday, May 26, 2025, following a purported corruption scandal involving the Embassy's visa department.

A local IT worker is alleged to have transferred Embassy monies into a personal account, Minister Ablakwa disclosed in a Facebook post.

This link redirected applicants for visa and passport services to his private company, Ghana Travel Consultants (GTC), where unapproved fees ranging from $29.75 to $60 were charged and deposited into his personal account. Investigations suggest this scheme operated undetected for at least five years.

In response to the scandal, all Foreign Affairs Ministry staff posted to the Washington D.C. embassy were recalled to Accra.

The embassy's IT department was dissolved, and all locally recruited staff were suspended pending further investigation.

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