All businesses and different institutions successful Ghana indispensable present usage a biometric app scanner to cheque nationalist individuality cards nether caller rules aimed astatine strengthening information and curbing fraud.
Until present galore of them person conscionable visually checked oregon photocopied the paper for their records, which has made it imaginable for criminals to impersonate someone.
All Ghanaian citizens and overseas residents successful the state indispensable transportation a integrative biometric nationalist ID known arsenic the "Ghana Card".
Introduced implicit the past decade, the Ghana Card has go cardinal to regular beingness successful the West African federation and is needed to entree banking services, registry Sim cards and to get a passport oregon driver's licence.
The biometric information captured connected the paper by the country's National Identification Authority (NIA) includes 10 fingerprints, iris scans arsenic good arsenic a photograph and signature.
In aboriginal those checking the paper volition person to usage a mobile telephone app that checks that information aft scanning the card.
"It is present an offence to photocopy oregon visually inspect a Ghana Card for the intent of transaction. Biometric verification is present mandatory," said Wisdom Yayra Koku Deku, the NIA chief, successful a statement.
Organisations that proceed utilizing photocopies oregon ocular ID checks hazard prosecution, with fines of up to 24,000 Ghanaian cedis (about $2,100 oregon £1,550). Individuals look fines of up to 6,000 Ghanaian cedis (about $525 oregon £390), NIA said.
The bureau urged organisations that were not yet connected to its integer individuality verification app to statesman the process immediately.
Deku said the authorities would, successful the coming days, little the nationalist connected the implementation of the amended regulations and measures to guarantee compliance.
Additional reporting by Thomas Naadi successful Accra
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