Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has stated that age-cheating in football will be a thing of the past after introducing Ghana card.
Bawumia said through Ghana card, the phenomenon of fake certificates and multiple ages in sports will be solved since individuals’ data will be interlinked.
Sharing his statement;
Fake birth certificates were a big problem for our country and it made it very difficult for people to trust our documents at embassies and everywhere because people will just go and have fake birth certificates.
In fact when we went to the birth and death registry, we found three different databases and we found three different databases and we had to harmonize the databases.
Once you have a unique identity you’ll not have fake birth certificates as there will be no football age versus normal age. That business will come to an end.
Recently you would know that our women’s team was banned for presenting some overaged players. Hopefully, now we are going to strictly require that they bring their Ghana card before they are going to be registered to play.
According to the National Identification Authority (NIA), more than 14 million Ghanaians have so far been issued with the Ghana Card.
