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Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah has said the Electoral Commission is not obliged to use the Ghana Card as a tool for voting in an election.

According to him “The Ghana Card cannot be used as voters ID card by the Electoral Commission [EC] because it is a different institution which has its own way of doing things and laws binding it, therefore it is up to them to decide whether to use it or not, but we as officials of Ghana Card cannot force them to use it for their works.”



He said aside that the Ghana card should be the foremost card to be used for any form of transaction in the name of Ghana before any other card comes into play.

“I have heard some banks reject the Ghana card, but they must desist from that as it is the first identity of a Ghanaian unless the person in question does not have the Ghana card before any other identity card can be used in place of that,” he clarified.

“In fact, anyone who rejects the Ghana Card breaks the laws of Ghana,” he added.



Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah on UTV’s Friday edition of ‘Adekye Nsroma’, called ‘Mpu ne Mpu’ stressed that their target is to get more than 80% of Ghanaians registered on the Ghana card by next year, which is an exercise this country has yearned for many years ago and not an initiative of this government alone as some allege.