Bawumia to launch one-stop online portal for payment transactions

Government is expected to launch a transformational, one-stop online portal; Ghana.Gov to support digital transactions.

According to a tweet sent out by the Ministry of Information on June 6, 2020, the Ghana.Gov portal will serve as a National Digital Payment Platform to enhance government’s digitisation agenda.

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is scheduled to formally launch the platform at a ceremony in Accra on Monday June 8 2020.

Commenting in a video post ahead of the launch, Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said the “platform comes as additional layer to what the Akufo-Addo led administration has been doing to digitise the economy.”

“The Ghana.Gov will provide a single point of access to all services of Ministries, departments and agencies of government and it will ensure that anybody who needs to make single payments can that do through the portal without having to interface with several people,” he added.

Explaining the benefits of the platform, the Information Minister said it will improve government’s revenue collection, help save more on its expenditure as well as aid government in the fight against corruption.

Kojo Oppong Nkrumah added that the Vice President will use the occasion to reiterate government’s other efforts in the digitisation space.

Vice President @MBawumia to launch National Digital Payment Platform to enhance government digitization agenda.

Listen to Information Minister @konkrumah speak about the ceremony scheduled for Monday 8th June 2020. #GhanaDotGov pic.twitter.com/mHoyERrjsA

— Ministry of Information (@moigovgh) June 6, 2020

Vice President, Dr. Bawumia, earlier in January this year announced the introduction of the one-stop portal; Ghana.Gov in line with government's digitisation and economic transformation agenda.

He explained that the Ghana.Gov online portal will synchronize all business transactions with all government agencies and enterprises. It will also enable members of the public to transact business with any government agency through the Ghana.Gov platform, according to the Vice President.