Nayele Ametefeh�s attempt to smuggle illicit drugs into the United Kingdom has opened the gates for more education to be shared on persons entitled to use a diplomatic passport.
It was alleged she used a diplomatic passport enroute to the UK and although ministers of state have come out to deny the story, it is just fair to educate the masses about the various types of passport.
A former deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchey explained on PEACE FM that there are three types of passport issued to Ghanaians by the State. She explains that there is the normal, service and the diplomatic type issued out depending on your status in society.
Ordinary men and women, she reveals are entitled to the normal type whereas the service type were given to heads of organizations who perform tasks on behalf of government overseas.
The diplomatic type, are meant to be used by diplomats, workers of the foreign affairs ministry who have been assigned to work outside Ghana, ambassadors and their nuclear family; high level officials like the president, his vice, the chief justice and parliamentarians.
Lastly, Hon. Ayorkor Botchey adds that government has the power to hand over diplomatic passports to any person although it is a rare case, she established.
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