
Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has scattered claims that the Ghana Card can be acknowledged as a travelling document instead of a passport.
Some government functionaries including Ghana’s VP Dr Mahamudu Bawumia had earlier stated that the Ghana card had been acknowledged by ICAO as an e-identification (E-passport).
The stories making the rounds drew an explanation from ICAO discrediting such cases.
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Speaking on the issue at Parliament, the Foreign Affairs Minister has categorically expressed that despite the fact that the Ghana card has the capability of becoming an e-identification, it has not yet been acknowledged outside the ECOWAS sub-district yet.
Responding to questions from the Speaker of Parliament, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey repeated that, despite the fact that the Ghana Card bears the specialized features of an E-passport and can possibly be used as an E-identification there is still a long way to go for it to be recognized as such.