Equatorial Guinea, Ghana want to flush out ‘ghost’ public workers using biometrics

The use of biometrics to identify government workers in African countries has been gaining traction over the years, and Equatorial Guinea and Ghana are the latest countries wishing to improve the efficiency of their public payrolls with the technology.

Ghana’s National Identification Authority (NIA) has declared its willingness to help the government expunge public workers who are defrauding the state of huge sums of money for little or no work done. The ID-issuing authority says this is possible with the …

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