Sammy Gyamfi, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s communications officer, has emphasized the important role the former John Mahama administration played in creating the Ghana Card system.
He said that the NPP government had just carried on with the Mahama government’s approach, and that the NDC government had begun the Ghana Card’s implementation process as early as 2016.
According to him, the Mahama administration processed roughly 4.7 million cards and gathered biometric and demographic information on roughly 16 million Ghanaians in 2016.
Sammy Gyamfi asserted in response to Dr. Bawumia’s speech to the country that the Mahama administration handed roughly 900,000 cards before to its departure in 2016.
“Dr. Bawumia deliberately ignored the significant contributions of the NDC/Mahama administration in developing the Ghana Card system to what it is today.
“It is important to note, that by 2016, the NDC/Mahama administration had Passed the law that makes the Ghana Card the sole document for identification purposes for any transaction (L.I 2111). Collected biometric and demographic data on about 16 million Ghanaians. Processed about 4.7 million cards. Distributed about 900,000 cards.
“Clearly, this government only came to continue the implementation of a system that had already been developed by the NDC/Mahama government, as a continuation of what was started under [former] President J. A Kufuor and continued by [former] President J.E Atta-Mills of blessed memory. The Ghana card credit must therefore be shared by all successive governments who have contributed to where we are today. Note that Bawumia does not even credit his boss, Akufo-Addo.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
