To eliminate the phenomenon of ‘ghost’ workers once and for all from the government payroll, the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has asked that all government workers be paid through the filter of the e-zwich card.
To that end, he said, all public sector workers who drew their salaries from the Consolidated Fund must be issued with e-zwich cards if they did not have them.
Dr Bawumia, who was speaking at the launch of a new payment card in Accra on Wednesday, said the biometric features of the e-zwich made it ideal for public sector payments, as it was able to eliminate ghost workers.
Explaining further, he said, the salaries would be paid into every worker’s bank account but would be filtered through the e-zwich system to make sure that the whole public sector payroll was devoid of ghost workers.
“To eliminate the phenomenon of ghost workers once and for all, we are going to require that all government workers will also be paid through the filter of the e-zwich card.
“This means that all public sector workers who do not have the e-zwich cards will be issued with these e-zwich cards and, even though the money is not going to be paid to the e-zwich card, the money will be paid into every worker’s bank account but the filter will be e-zwich and that will make sure that for the whole public sector payroll, we can say that there will be no ‘ghost’ workers,” Dr Bawumia stated.
The GH Dual Card
Known as the GH Dual Card, the newly introduced payment card, which is the initiative of the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement System (GhIPPS) and the Bank of Ghana (BoG), is a dual-purpose card that has both the e-zwich and the gh-link applications.
