Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has claimed that two NDC members of Parliament have secretly registered for the Ghana card contrary to the collective stance of the minority on the issue.
In an interview with Starr News, Mr. Mensah-Bonsu said the two begged the NIA officials not to disclose their identities.
He, however, added that the individuals in question are different from the earlier photos that popped up on social media bearing the names of some MPs.
“Even when they are making that passionate appeal, some of them have gone ahead and registered. Last Friday when I went there to do my own, there were two of them with me. I won’t mention their names because they themselves had indicated to the officers that they shouldn’t unveil their identities which explains why they didn’t do it at where the people were doing it near the chamber.
“They chose to come to the restaurant to do it. Why did they opt to come to the restaurant? They wanted to have some secrecy. I won't mention their names now until push comes to shove,” he claimed.
The Minority has maintained using passports and birth certs alone as proof of identity for the acquisition of the card will de-nationalise many Ghanaians since scores in the rural areas of the country do not have either of the requirement. They have therefore refused to register for the cards and called on their members to also stay off.
Meanwhile, former President John Kufuor has backed calls by the Minority saying the Voter ID card must be added to the requirements for the Ghana card.
“Documents that will help identify a citizen as a citizen will be sovereign authority in him or her so if your voter ID is not incorporated…I think it should be added,” the former President noted when officials of the National Identification Authority went to his home to register him for the card.
Source: starrfmonline.com
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Mr this is not secret registration, but you are still lying, if not name them
Starrfm don't put things in the mouth of the former president******
Starry don't put things in the mouth if the former president for ridicule,what do you gain from this? the voter ID card is out if the question. The Abu Ramadan and Nimakoh case in the Supreme Court asked the EC to expunge names of people with NHIS as proof to obtain the Voters ID but didn't advise those with NHIS voters ID cards in possession to return those ID for a new one so how do we accept those already in existence in the system as proof of ID? common sense is not at all common to the ndc. Mo besu ara awu because you are f0000**000ls nothing make sense to the ndc if it doesn't go their way and how can you live in a society with such dumb and inferior mentality? We just need to ignore them and move ahead, waiting for an inferior mentality is a mission never to be accomplished.
so who do these ediiots think they are foolling
PRESIDENT KUFOUR HAS DENIED THE STORY
These NDC people who can cr!minally take double salary for years can do anything... Very soon all of them will go for the card secretly. NIA must charge them penalty for wasting their time.....
IT IS NOT A SECRET REGISTRATION. IN FACT IT IS WRONG TO DESCRIBE THE NDC MEN'S REGISTRATION AS SECRET. IT IS AN OFFICIAL REGISTRATION ALLOWED BY THE LAWS OF GHANA. IT IS A SHAME THAT THE NDC IS ASHAMED OF THEIR ILL-DEEDS
This is misinformation. That is not what former president Kuffour said. He has come out to refute this so please report correctly.