North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has challenged claims in a statement by the National Identification Authority explaining its issuance of a Ghana Card to the former secretary to the National Cathedral Board of Trustees, Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng, under the name Kwabena Adu Gyamfi.

Ablakwa has suggested the NIA may have issued dual cards to the same man but with different dates of birth, however, the NIA in the statement issued Thursday said Mr Ablakwa’s claims are false.

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According to the Authority, “there is no biometric record of any person in the NIA database called Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng and, therefore, Mr Ablakwa could not have conducted any comparative analysis of that non-existent data with that of Kwabena Adu Gyamfi”’.

Its registration centres in Kumasi duly issued an identity card to Kwabena Adu Gyamfi after he presented all the necessary documents.

But Mr Ablakwa says with this clarification from the NIA. it “clearly confirms my unimpeachable and unassailable finding that they issued a Ghana Card in the name of Kwabena Adu Gyamfi and with a different date of birth contrary to other IDs & incorporation documents issued by government.”

According to the legislator, it is now a notorious fact that Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng was appointed to the Board of the National Cathedral of Ghana by President Akufo-Addo as Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng.

He added that the NIA report also makes it incontestable that the National Cathedral incorporation documents bear the name Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng, alleging also that he has simultaneously used Kwabena Adu Gyamfi and acquired supporting national IDs.

“How pathetic and incredulous that despite all the verbose claims by the NIA of an integrated identification system, one individual styled as both Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng and Kwabena Adu Gyamfi has been incredibly successful at outwitting multiple state institutions with his double identity— institutions which include the NIA, GRA, Office of the Registrar of Companies, DVLA and the Passport Office. This terribly exposes the shallowness of the NIA’s integration grandstanding.”

Read the full statement by AblaKwa below:

SAMUEL OKUDZETO ABLAKWA

I Just read the meandering and circumlocutory statement from the NIA.

The NIA clearly confirms my unimpeachable and unassailable finding that they issued a Ghana Card in the name of Kwabena Adu Gyamfi and with a different date of birth contrary to other IDs & incorporation documents issued by government.

It is now a notorious fact that Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng was appointed to the Board of the National Cathedral of Ghana by President Akufo-Addo as Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng. It is also incontestable that the National Cathedral incorporation documents and other companies incorporated bear the name Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng. He has simultaneously used Kwabena Adu Gyamfi and acquired supporting national IDs for his fraudulent modus operandi.

How pathetic and incredulous that despite all the verbose claims by the NIA of an integrated identification system, one individual styled as both Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng and Kwabena Adu Gyamfi has been incredibly successful at outwitting multiple state institutions with his double identity— institutions which include the NIA, GRA, Office of the Registrar of Companies, DVLA and the Passport Office. This terribly exposes the shallowness of the NIA’s integration grandstanding.

And for the record, at no point did I assert that the NIA issued two cards with the names Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng and Kwabena Adu Gyamfi. I have been consistent in revealing that contrary to what many Ghanaians may expect, there is no Victor Kusi Boateng in the NIA database. That was quite a piteous and mediocre attempt at discrediting an MP simply carrying out his constitutional oversight mandate. I shall duly ignore the other distortions and deliberate obfuscations.

The NIA may want to desist from pedestrian distortions and get to work with other state institutions with the objective of achieving credible data integration and thereby preventing collective embarrassment from another Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng—Kwabena Adu Gyamfi saga.