A Cyber Security Consultant and former employee of the National Identification Authority, Yayra Koku has said it was the vision of the late President Mills and President Mahama to make the Ghana Card a one-stop-card for all transactions in Ghana.
According to him, it was on that basis why “in 2012, an LI [legislative intrument] was passed (LI 211) to make the Ghana card the ONLY card for all transactions in Ghana.”
He revealed that “The vision was to make the Ghana card as comprehensive as possible to enable you to use it as the following; I) Drivers License, ii)SSNIT, iii)NHIA, iv)TIN, v)Visa card for ATM etc.” adding that “In fact, the 3rd floor of the NIA building was reserved for these agencies to have representatives in NIA for easy inter-agency communication.”
“In 2016 we had a meeting with a MasterCard representative in Africa from Nigeria to strategise on how to link bank accounts to the Ghana card to be used at the ATMs for withdrawal purposes. All these were part of the preparations ongoing in anticipation of the launch of the new Ghana card.” – he noted
President Akufo-Addo in his 2021 state of the nation address said the GhanaCard number will now replace Tax Identification and Social Security and National Insurance Trust number. The policy has since started.
Read his full post on Facebook:
It was the vision of the late President Mills and President Mahama to make the Ghana Card a one-stop-card for all transactions in Ghana. So in 2012, an LI was passed (LI 211) to make the Ghana card the ONLY card for all transactions in Ghana. The vision was to make the Ghana card as comprehensive as possible to enable you to use it as the following;
I)Drivers License
ii)SSNIT
iii)NHIA
iv)TIN
v)Visa card for ATM etc.
In fact, the 3rd floor of the NIA building was reserved for these agencies to have representatives in NIA for easy inter-agency communication.
In 2016 we had a meeting with a MasterCard representative in Africa from Nigeria to strategise on how to link bank accounts to the Ghana card to be used at the ATMs for withdrawal purposes. All these were part of the preparations ongoing in anticipation of the launch of the new Ghana card.
Do you know why most banks are rejecting the GhanaCard now? The answer is simple. The NIA has failed to provide a verification platform to authenticate the genuineness of the Ghana card. I’ve been hinted however that they recently rolled it out.
How can an institution such as NIA issue cards for all these periods and is now implementing a verification system to authenticate the same if not for political expediency?
The NPP rushed in launching the Ghanacard without recourse to the roadmap because they wanted to deceive Ghanaians that within 6months, they have been able to implement what the NDC couldn’t do in 8yrs, Liars.
The design of this card and the system built up was done during the NDC era, including the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), as I indicated in my previous post.
I am daring Attafuah or any of his incompetent IT guys he has employed to come and assert the current NIA system is an initiative of the NPP government.
When meetings were ongoing with the private partner to design this current system, Attafuah was busy practising law to fatten his pocket.
