{"id":197897,"date":"2025-05-12T00:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T22:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-chip-embedded-passport-not-creation-of-current-govt-abdulai-jinapor\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T00:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T22:20:37","slug":"ghana-chip-embedded-passport-not-creation-of-current-govt-abdulai-jinapor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-chip-embedded-passport-not-creation-of-current-govt-abdulai-jinapor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Chip-Embedded Passport Not Creation of Current Govt &#8211; Abdulai Jinapor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">A ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs of Committee of Parliament, Samuel A. Jinapor, has stated that the recently launched chip-embedded passport is not the creation of the current government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">According to him, the previous government started the project and the current government could not take credit for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;The project is the result of a multi-year process that started long before the current administration took office,&#8221; Mr Jinapor said in a public commentary to clarify the issue following&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505080480.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs of Committee of Parliament, Samuel A. Jinapor, has stated that the recently launched chip-embedded passport is not the creation of the current government. According to him, the previous government started the project and the current government could not take credit for it. &#8220;The project is the result of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[25052,258,256,51325,11743,9184,4508,4509,4357,42932,257,4346,254],"class_list":["post-197897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-abdulai","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chipembedded","tag-creation","tag-current","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-govt","tag-jinapor","tag-news","tag-passport","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}