Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs, Deweh Gray, has denied claims of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ordering passports clandestinely as speculated in the media in recent days. The online news outlet in its article linked several current and past employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including acting Foreign Minister, Cllr. Knews alleged that, “there were 23 boxes of privileged passports (i.e., Official, Diplomatic & Service), which amounted to 5,750 blank privileged passports (23×250 passports per box). One of those dismissed worked in the office of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Henry Fahnbulleh. She said by March, the government had set up COVID-19 restrictions and had shut down the passport center and was only issuing emergency passports.