Bawumia legitimizes 'I will pick Ghana Card more than 1,000 trades' remark
VP Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was enduring an onslaught for proclaiming his inclination for the Ghana Card over street trades in the nation's journey for improvement.
While talking at the send off of two new significant level data innovation programs at the Accra Business School at Baatsona in Accra, he made sense of that his inclination for the public ID card, generally called the Ghana Card, is more gainful than 1,000 exchanges.
He saw that some Ghanaians don't completely see the value in the digitalisation drive by the public authority however the public authority is ready to seek after the plan as a vehicle to change the economy.
"A portion of the issues return to freedom. We acquired an issue of no interesting public recognizable proof framework. This has been with us since autonomy. We had carried out a public recognizable proof framework for the Ghana Card.
"Today, we have 16 million Ghanaians with remarkable personalities, and that is a significant change. A many individuals once in a while don't see the value in its effect.
"In the event that you gave me 1000 trades and the Ghana Card, I would pick the Ghana Card since it has more effect," Dr Mahamudu Bawumia said.
This remark, the Vice President noted, caused a furore among certain segments of general society with some finding out if all was great with him.
Be that as it may, tending to members at the Civil Service Awards function on Friday, July 29, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia returned to his "I'll pick Ghana card north of 1,000 trades" remarks once more and attempted to make sense of further.
"It appears to be my Ghana card explanation was misconstrued. I maintain that individuals should consider it fundamentally. Without precedent for our set of experiences, we have a remarkable character framework which is biometric thus we can interestingly distinguish each individual whether they are alive or dead.
"With this, the instance of phantom names on our public area framework will turn into a thing of the past...at National Service Scheme we found 14,000 apparition laborers saving yearly 114 million Ghana cedis just from one organization 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 per year."
Ghana card
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's organization relaunched the Ghana Card enlistment on Friday, September 15, 2017.
The card as per the public authority will act as a novel identifier for both inhabitant and non-occupant Ghanaians too for all time occupant outside nationals.
Right now, the card fills in as an electronic identification and SSNIT card with the Bank of Ghana additionally declaring that the card will be the main supported card for all bank exchanges in the country.
The National Communication Authority (NCA), then again, has asked residents to re-register their SIM Cards with their Ghana Cards.
Ghana Card as E-visa
Dr. Bawumia as of late reported that the carry out of the Ghana Card completely met the prerequisites for an E-identification, notwithstanding a dismissal by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
This guarantee was shot somewhere near Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, Foreign Affairs Minister.
She let Parliamentarians know that the cycles for the acknowledgment of the Ghana card as a source record for global travel have not been settled at this point.
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