Ghana Card E-Passport: Bawumia step by step transforming into a joker - International Relations Expert
Global Relations Expert Prof. Agyenim Boateng has depicted as humiliating the inconsistencies between Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and the Foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey over the utilization of the Ghana Card as a voyaging report.
He said it is disheartening to the point that the Vice President could make such bogus cases when he knew the data he put in the public space was not valid.
He was answering subtleties given by the Foreign Affairs Minister when she showed up in Parliament on Tuesday.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Shirley Ayorkor Botchway uncovered that the Ghana Card can't be utilized as a sole report for global voyaging yet.
Showing up in Parliament on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, the Minister explained that the visa and travel testament stays the authority reports for going external the country.
She was answering inquiries when she showed up before the House.
"The Ghana Card isn't a substitution for the current biometric visa. The Ghana card fills in as a discretionary travel report to be utilized couple with our biometric identification.
"It should be highlighted that the visa along with the traffic authentications are the main endorsed travel reports that are universally remembered", she said.
VP Dr. Mahamudu Baeumia had expressed that the card has completely met the prerequisites for an E-identification, notwithstanding a dismissal by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
He further set that the Ghana card would be perceived as an electronic identification in 197 nations by 2022.
However, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway on the floor of Parliament said "right now, the Ghana Card can't be utilized for venturing out to different nations, either inside or beyond ECOWAS.
"That will require reciprocal concurrences with nations for their specialists to acknowledge the card as a movement report. The Ministry is in dynamic conversations with ECOWAS part states and our reciprocal accomplices to accomplish this".
Responding, Prof. Boateng said the Vice President ought to continuously check data before he discloses them.
Talking on Nyankonton Mu Nsem on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm, ought to be aware of how individuals see him.
He said the second refined man of the land has turned into a public criticism and has found his position in the Guinness Book of records in a negative light.
"He is shaming Ghanaians with his bogus cases and affirmations. He isn't the one in particular who might be humiliated at whatever point he makes such bogus cases.
"If the Vice President has any desire to say something, he ought to confirm the data first. He is the Vice President or more the Foreign Affairs Minister yet actually, the Foreign Affairs Minister is the one responsible for tact and international concerns.
"He is acting as though he is a joker and a humorist and deriding Ghanaians, particularly those abroad. As somebody with a Ph.D., he ought to be directed while offering remarks. He shouldn't act like a comic," he focused.
In the mean time, he has conceded that the Foreign Illicit relationships Ministry ought to have explained the issue just after the Vice President had made them and not stand by till the Minister was brought to show up in parliament prior to explaining the issue.
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