Government 'settles' e-Services, Ghana.gov debate

The government of Ghana has reacted to assertions by proponents of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the administration of former President John Dramani Mahama started the Ghana.gov platform it is implementing.

Mahamudu Bawumia that the Ghana.gov platform was started by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government, stating that the platform is an alteration of the e-Services platform started by Mahama.

According to her, the e-Services platform and ghana.gov are two different things.

The minister further explained that there is no way the two platforms can be compared because the Ghana.gov platform being implemented by the Akufo-Addo government is far superior to the e-Services started by the Mahama administration.

She also said that only a handful of government entities were on the e-Services platform compared to the Ghana.gov platform, which has several hundreds of agencies.

Currently, Ghana.gov has facilitated the collection of an impressive sum of GHS 210 Billion Ghana cedis," she added.About the Ghana.gov platform:.

Ghana.gov is a digital service and revenue collection platform, created to provide a single point of access to Government of Ghana services for the public sector.