The office of Ghana’s Honorary Consul-General in Houston, USA, Jack M. Webb has failed to declare the full visa fees collected from applicants between 2018 and 2019, the Auditor-General has said.
According to the A-G’s report from 2021, the Consul-General received $100 for each regular Visa application but only paid out $60 to the state.
Therefore, the amount declared and paid to the government chest was $60 for each $100 that was received.
The Consulate also charged $200 for each express visa processing but accounted for $100.
“Between September 2018 and September 2019, the Honorary Consul-General at the Houston Consulate levied each Visa applicant a US$100.00 and a US$200.00 for “Express Service” for which he accounted for US$60.00 and US$100.00 respectively,” the audit report revealed.
“In total, the office accounted for US$458,900.00 out of US$843,900.00 leaving a difference of US$354,760.00 unaccounted for,” the report further noted.
The Auditor–General thus recommends that the Head of Chancery at Ghana’s mission in Washington immediately recovers the difference of 354,760.00 from the Honorary Consul-General.
“We recommended that the Head of Chancery should immediately recover the difference of US$354,760.00 from the Honorary Consul-General.”
Source: MyJoyOnline
