Bawumia makes sense of 'I will pick Ghana Card north of 1,000 trades' remark
VP Mahamudu Bawumia has firmly protected the dubious remark about his inclination for Ghana Card north of 1,000 exchanges.
Talking at the Accra Business School, Dr Bawumia said the public ID card is more useful than 1,000 trades.
"We have carried out a public ID framework and today we have 16 million Ghanaians with exceptional characters and that is a significant change. Furthermore, some of the time a many individuals don't see the value in what the effect of the Ghana card is.
"However, in the event that you gave me 1,000 trades and a Ghana Card, I will pick the Ghana Card since it is more effective," he said at the Accra Business School.
This remark created a ruckus among a part of the general population and the resistance NDC.
North of about fourteen days on, the Vice President has answered his faultfinders. He looked to legitimize the remark while tending to members at the Civil Service Awards function on Friday.
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"You can envision the furore it caused with individuals asking is this man insane?" he tested.
Dr. Bawumia, in making sense of his remark, said "without precedent for the historical backdrop of our country we have a one of a kind ID framework which is biometric thus we can extraordinarily distinguish each individual whether they are alive or dead."
This present circumstance, he accepts, will kill phantom names from public payrolls and possibly save Ghana a huge number of cedis.
"So right away … the instance of phantom names on our public area finance will turn into a relic of past times… at National Service Scheme we found 14,000 phantom specialists saving yearly 114 million Ghana cedis just from one establishment since we search for exceptional personality. Only two or three days prior SSNIT revealed finding 27,000 phantom retired people and they were being paid 327 million cedis every year."
The Ghana card number, as per the Vice President, has additionally turned into the TIN number for Ghanaians and will assist with coordinating data sets and further develop charge assortment and thusly rake in more income for the country.
These reserve funds among numerous different advantages Ghana stands to acquire, he demands, illuminated his remark about favoring a Ghana Card north of 1,000 trades on the grounds that not exclusively will it save the country a huge number of cedis, however will likewise assist with scaling back degenerate practices.
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