Vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumiah reiterates the importance of the Ghana Card by stating that it will help track ghost names to save millions of revenue for the country. This he said, at the 2022 Civil Service Awards Night.
The Ghana card has a biometric system that gives everybody a unique identity. This will make it easy to track and identify people, whether dead or alive and make the menace of ghost names a thing of the past.
He hinted that over 400 million Ghana Cedis had been lost to ghost names from SSNIT and National Service Schemes. Thus, an improved system will help deal with this challenge.
The Vice President said there are plans to establish a credit system where individuals on regular income can buy things on credit. The Ghana card and the new robust identification system will make this goal achievable.
He noted that 14 thousand ghost workers were identified with the National Service Scheme and 14 million Ghana Cedis to the public purse.
On the issue of the mobile money interoperability system, the vice president lauded efforts by his government to make the transfer of mobile money from bank to mobile phone or vice versa; and across different networks possible. This he says, was not possible a few years ago.
