The Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority, Wisdom Kwaku Deku, has called for the full integration of the Ghana Card as the sole basis for identity verification in SIM registration, cautioning against duplicating existing systems.
In a statement issued last Friday, Mr Deku reflected on previous policy approaches, describing attempts to conduct identity verification outside the authority’s centralised framework as inefficient and counterproductive.
“When identity has already been established and securely stored within a central system, there is no justification for recreating that process elsewhere,” the statement read.
It added that, “Doing so introduces friction, increases cost, and weakens system integrity. It also creates room for perverse incentives, where processes become driven by volume and fees rather than accuracy and verification.”
