Former Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, Dr. Robert Kuganab-Lem is blaming the Akufo-Addo-led government for the lack of passport office in the Upper East Region.
Speaking in an interview on Breakfast Today yesterday, Dr. Kuganab-Lem said the erstwhile Mahama administration commenced works to establish a passport centre in the region and had almost finished setting up the office space when it lost power in the 2016 elections.
He added that feasibility studies for the planned regional airport had been completed and works were about to take off at the time they were leaving office.
But NPP, which took over the reigns of governance, he claimed, failed to continue with works on the projects thereby, denying the region the benefits of such facilities.
“I can tell you the time I was there with the Hon. Albert Bongo, the passport officer came and we got him a place to start the office. He was going to Accra to come back and start.
When we lost, that guy went to Japan and I saw him at the embassy there. I was shocked that they sent him away, the man who was supposed to come and open the passport office in the Upper East Region,” he said.
This, he stated, is because the NPP and its government do not regard the people of the region.
Residents of the Upper East Region have, for years, demanded the construction of passport office and an airport to enable them access passport and aviation services with ease.
Although a passport centre is being built, work on the centre is progressing at slow pace.
The construction of the airport has yet to start although government claimed it has engaged a business entity interested in building such infrastructure to finance its construction.
