Senior Presidential Advisor, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has emphasized that the implementation of digitalized application processes for obtaining passports and driver's licenses has successfully eradicated corruption.

He highlighted that this digitalization has significantly enhanced the efficiency and reliability of service delivery to the people of Ghana.

Addressing the audience at the inaugural global conference on cyber capacity building in Accra on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, Osafo-Maafo underscored that Ghana is making substantial progress in its digitalization agenda.

He said, "In these times, we definitely have to digitalize to make services that we give to our citizenry quick and reliable. We recently decided to modernize the passport office. There is a long queue of people waiting for something which is a right to have a passport as a Ghanaian and I noticed that it changed so many things."

He added that, "Before then, you get there, the form you must complete to get the passport, you go there and they tell you the form is finished, come next week and you may go up and down for some time. Now, it is done online, so it eliminated go and come."

"The moment you digitalize, you use technology to even fight corruption because corruption associated with getting a passport is now gone because of digitalization. We have done the same thing for the driving license...now, we are doing all the application process online and I think we should move in that direction," Yaw Osafo-Maafo stated.

In the interim, there are intentions to raise the cost of the nation's passport application procedures.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong defended the government's new action by stating that it was required to continue providing Ghanaians with the best services possible.