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The Ghana Passport Services said it has secured an initial 5000 green booklets used to produce the travelling document from its suppliers. For this reason, it would start clearing all outstanding backlogs of applications by way of issuing new passports to Ghanaians from Monday. Media reports suggested the Ghana Passport Services had not paid for previous deliveries by its suppliers, Buck Press, the company which supplies the booklets. Therefore, the sudden hold up on the issuing of the document to citizens. The applicants have since expressed disappointment and prayed the situation normalized soon. Director of the Services, Eric Odoi-Anim, told Joy News his outfit had to undertake some administrative measures to contain the backlog of applications after the stocks went low recently. According to him, the said measures took some time and so they had to literally fall on some reserves to start the printing process in order to �strictly� address emergency travels like medical situations and official travels. And still be in the position to meet the needs of the public to a limited extent, he said, assuring that the situation would not prolong. Periodically, he mentioned, the service has a quota it prints out for wannabe passport holders.