Former Western North Regional Minister Joojo Rocky Obeng has praised Ghana’s national identification system, the Ghana Card, describing it as a decisive tool in solving a brutal murder case during his tenure.

In a Facebook post on Sunday (24 May), Obeng recounted an incident in which a young woman was allegedly lured from the Ashanti Region into the Western North Region and killed.

He said only the victim’s lifeless body was initially found at the scene, but a breakthrough came when investigators discovered a blood-stained cloth about 50 metres away containing her Ghana Card.

According to him, the identification card helped police establish the identity of the victim and subsequently trace those allegedly responsible for the crime.

“We got something from the cloth search. And it was the most important piece to help find who the headless body was and who the killers were too,” he wrote.

Obeng said the Ghana Card “did all the speaking” for the victim and ultimately contributed to the arrest and prosecution of suspects in the case.

He added that the experience underscored the importance of national identification systems in criminal investigations, aligning with recent comments by Interior Minister Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka on the utility of the Ghana Card in security work.

The Ghana Card, introduced under Ghana’s national digital identification programme, has been widely promoted as a key tool for public administration, banking and security services.