All government transactions in Ghana to go cashless and electronic by June 2020

Ghana is setting its feet to make all government transactions electronically from June 2020.

According to Ghana’s Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia, from June next year, all government transactions will be accomplished electronically. The introduction of the cashless payment system is to decrease corruption, minimize human interaction and ensure efficiency in all government services.

“Today, because of mobile money interoperability, Ghanaians are able to pay their taxes through mobile money account.

We have, therefore, set a target that at least by June 2020, the government will no longer receive cash for any services; we will only go cashless and electronic,” Mahamudu Bawumia opined. The 55-year old leader was addressing the third Africa Rising Conference organized by the International Advertising Association in association with the Advertising Association of Ghana in the capital city, Accra.

The Vice-President said that from June next year, the government won’t receive cash for any services to ensure the entire system goes electronic and cashless. “That is the goal that government is setting because technology now allows us to do so,” he added.

Mahamudu Bawumia cited that the government of Ghana would leverage all the old post offices across the districts to serve as Internet resource centres to provide the service. “Since coming into office, the government has been guided by the understanding and conviction that technology is critical to transforming the Ghanaian economy and society as a whole. We view technology as a problem-solving tool; it allows us to break from the impossibility mindset. With technology, so many things which we thought were not possible become possible and we have to take advantage of it,” he added.

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