Ghana Card: A popular name may not be a person’s official name — NIA on Kusi Boateng’s double identity

Ghana Card: A popular name may not be a person’s official name — NIA on Kusi Boateng’s double identity

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has described as false allegations by Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa that Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng holds double Ghana Cards.

The NIA says the facts contradict the allegations leveled against the Authority and the founder of Powel Chapel International.

The Authority in a statement on February 1 said a popular name may not be a person’s real or official name, and this is rather trite or commonplace.

According to the NIA, there is nothing mysterious about Kwabena Adu Gyamfi being issued with a Ghana Card as such, even though Okudzeto Ablakwa knows Kwabena Adu Gyamfi as Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng as well. Ablakwa has not presented any evidence that there is a person known as Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng whose biometrics exist in the NIA’s database or NIR with which he made his rare and comprehensive analysis.

Explaining grounds on which Rev. Kusi Boateng secured a Ghana Card with the name Kwabena Adu Gyamfi based on the facts in the NIR, the NIA said;

  1. During the mass registration exercise, Kwabena Adu Gyamfi went to an NIA registration center called Vicandy School at Asuoyeboah in Kumasi on 15th January 2020 to register for the Ghana Card;
  2. He submitted to NIA registration officials a valid Ghanaian passport issued by the Passport Office on 16th May 2018, with the name Kwabena Adu Gyamfi; the expiry date in the said passport is 15th May 2023;
  3. NIA registration officials registered Kwabena Adu Gyamfi using his valid passport as the base identity document for his registration, and duly issued him with a Ghana Card;
  4. NIA has no record of anyone bearing the name Victor Kusi Boateng in the NIR; and
  5. NIA has no record in the NIR of any person born on 7th September 1971 or any other day with the name Victor Kusi Boateng.

Background

The latest corruption exposé on the National Cathedral by the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, suggested impropriety on the part of the secretary to the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral of Ghana, Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng.

On January 16, 2023, the MP made some allegations against Rev. Kusi Boateng, who is the secretary to the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral of Ghana.

In an earlier revelation about the National Cathedral, Okudzeto Ablakwa said a whopping GH¢2.6 million was dished out to a company named JNS Talent Centre Limited.

Further investigations into the alleged payment led to the discovery of one Kwabena Adu Gyamfi as a director of JNS Talent Centre.

Having confirmed the identities of two out of three directors of the centre, Ablakwa dug deeper in a bid to discover the identity of the third director, Kwabena Adu Gyamfi.

According to his findings, citing a number of statutory documents, Kwabena Adu Gyamfi was the same as Reverend Kusi Boateng, who has allegedly been operating under the pseudonym Kwabena Adu Gyamfi.

By: Bernard Ralph Adams | Metrotvonline.com | Ghana

 

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