The Registrar-General, Mrs Jemima Oware, says middlemen, also known as ‘goro boys’, working at her office are human beings and therefore she cannot stop them from operating.
According to her, these middlemen are also Ghanaians who are working to make ends meet.
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The activities of ‘goro
boys’ are illegal, as they resort to taking money from clients to offer them
supposed speedy services at the various government institutions.
In recent times, their
activities have become very rampant at the passport offices and at the
Registrar General’s department.
Speaking at a multi-stakeholder business Integrity forum organised by the Ghana Integrity Initiative, the Registrar General said it would be difficult to stop the middlemen from operating.
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Mrs Oware explained that “The ‘goro boys’ are human beings, they are Ghanaians and I cannot throw them out of my front office,” she said, as quoted by Citinewsroom.com.
She urged individuals who do business at the Registrar General’s Department to be smart and rather go through the right people.
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According to her, there are persons stationed to help clients, yet people ignore them and rather go in for middlemen.
“That is why I said that when you get to the front office, deal with the officers who are in the cages who are properly tagged and go through the process yourself,” Mrs Oware added.
The Registrar Generals Department, Passport Office and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority are some of the centres where ‘goro boys’ usually operate.
Ghana|Adom News|Emmanuel Kofi Nkansah