Vice President of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia believes the Ghana card will help fight against age-cheating in the sports industry.
According Dr. Bawumia, the phenomenon of fake certificates and multiple ages in sports will be avoided when all data of individuals are interlinked.
“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,” Bawumia said, as quoted by Ghanaweb.
“Curently 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.”
In June, FIFA slapped Ghana’s U17 women’s team, the Black Maidens with a two-year ban for over-age cheating following their World Cup qualifier against Morocco.
(Amadu Hamidu)
