‘NHIS voters’ case pointless – PPP

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Tweaa dc 7 years ago

AND THE PPP IS DOING NOTHING TO CORRECT THE WRONGS IN THE REGISTER.....SO PPP WHAT IS YOUR CONTRIBUTION IN TERMS OF GETTING A PROPER VOTERS' REGISTER AND STOP YOUR BLABLA.

AND THE PPP IS DOING NOTHING TO CORRECT THE WRONGS IN THE REGISTER.....SO PPP WHAT IS YOUR CONTRIBUTION IN TERMS OF GETTING A PROPER VOTERS' REGISTER AND STOP YOUR BLABLA.
Benjy u.s.a 7 years ago

Ppp point is clear or u did not read the piece???

Ppp point is clear or u did not read the piece???
Atobian 7 years ago

Any idiot can say nonsense in Ghana. So what if we have tension. the electoral register must reflect the wish of majority of Ghanaians not the manipulation of a few bastards.

Any idiot can say nonsense in Ghana. So what if we have tension. the electoral register must reflect the wish of majority of Ghanaians not the manipulation of a few bastards.
Big john@uwr 7 years ago

We should not allow this Fulani man to destroy our Country. Ghana is our only country and his family will abandon Ghana as soon as the fire of destruction starts. We should not help him fuel this fire. His father Ahmed Ramada ...
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We should not allow this Fulani man to destroy our Country. Ghana is our only country and his family will abandon Ghana as soon as the fire of destruction starts. We should not help him fuel this fire. His father Ahmed Ramadan was PNC national Chairman but the PNC has never recorded a single vote in his polling station. This shows the Ramadans are nothing but political protitutes seeking to exploit the political tolerance of Ghanaians for their personal advantage. A Ghanaian could not do this in Mauritania.
Felix 7 years ago

Big John, you know we all agree the electoral register is bloated, the problem is how we will work to have it cleaned. If Abu Rhamadan and Co is fighting to have it clean, it doesn't mean they are idiots. It is the approach a ...
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Big John, you know we all agree the electoral register is bloated, the problem is how we will work to have it cleaned. If Abu Rhamadan and Co is fighting to have it clean, it doesn't mean they are idiots. It is the approach adopted that is much ado about nothing. So let us deal with the issue and stop the hypocrisy.
Felix 7 years ago

The PPP said the solution is the implementation of the National Identification data base. I don't think you expect the PPP to go out there registering people for the NIA. It is the responsibility of government to implement th ...
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The PPP said the solution is the implementation of the National Identification data base. I don't think you expect the PPP to go out there registering people for the NIA. It is the responsibility of government to implement that because NIA was formed by an act of parliament and we must make them functional.
OWEN-NEW YORK 7 years ago

ISSUE NATIONAL I.D CARD BEFORE THE ELECTION.

ISSUE NATIONAL I.D CARD BEFORE THE ELECTION.
Niim3Niim3 7 years ago

Even, the USA, UK and EU Passports are faked. Ghanaians give peace a chance. Yes Ede be K3k3! Nothing in this world cannot be faked. Nothing at all! To make anything fakeable full proof will cost 100 times the cost of produc ...
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Even, the USA, UK and EU Passports are faked. Ghanaians give peace a chance. Yes Ede be K3k3! Nothing in this world cannot be faked. Nothing at all! To make anything fakeable full proof will cost 100 times the cost of producing the original. Simply be vigilant on the election day that boxes are not stolen and replaced. The indelible ink was made indelible for this purpose. Even some criminal minded individuals will like to wash it quickly and re-vote again. So they made the voting ONLY ONE DAY exercise. Even though a person has numerous Degrees, none is obtained with 100% mark, but a universal principle of good effort is applied in all cases 50% is considered Pass and in some cases even 45% is considered Pass. If billions are spent on the new List, then how tough and strong should the indelible INK BE?
TRUE PATRIOT 7 years ago

In as much as I will agree wit u on de issue of de National ID, I'm not sure u guys are in anyway trying to say dat until we get de National identification system, natin can be done abt de current voters register which everyb ...
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In as much as I will agree wit u on de issue of de National ID, I'm not sure u guys are in anyway trying to say dat until we get de National identification system, natin can be done abt de current voters register which everybody believes is pregnant wit flaws. I dare say dat dis ur argument is also preposterous. Yes we need national ID no doubt but b4 we get one, dat is if it can't be made ryt now, we must first ensure dat at least dis current register is made as credible as possible. This we can do by making sure dat foreigners hu got onto de register by using de NHIS cards are taking off. (Don't forget der's no contention on getting minors and dead pple from de register so we can say dat dat is been catered for at least)
But don't u guys feel ashamed as Ghanaians to noe dat lots of foreigners are on our voter roll and are in fact able to choose who should rule us as a country.
I thought ur group could ve de insight to tell de EC and de police dat, dey should make sure dat foreigners and minors who try to register are duly punished and not left unpunished as dey always do. I thought u could suggest dat Ghana govt and de EC could through diplomacy, talk to de leaders of de various neighbouring nations to also help ensure dat their nationals don't easily come here to register. Is de PPP telling us dat des and other such measures cannot be taken unless we get a national ID?
If de PPP really means well, why are dey not calling for de prosecution of dos foreigners who admitted dey were non Ghanaians in de just ended limited registration.
What de PPP should noe is dat, wen we don't start prosecuting offenders, even National ID will not help bcos des offenders will still hook onto de National ID itself knowing dat dey will not be punished even if dey are caught.
Felix 7 years ago

Thank God first of all you agree National Identification Card is the way to go. You however shot yourself in the foot when you refuse to accept that fact and turn to go the way of those who seek their own parochial interest. ...
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Thank God first of all you agree National Identification Card is the way to go. You however shot yourself in the foot when you refuse to accept that fact and turn to go the way of those who seek their own parochial interest. If we agree National Identification system is the way to go, we can implement it with the period left. Remember NIA has already done 80% if the job and need few budgetary allocation to complete the job. Ask why we are refusing to go get it done. It is because of those who are hungry for power, they know when it is implemented they cannot steal votes and have unqualified persons on the register. so they refuse to make the NIA workable and they go the way you are going trying to let everyone believe it is not feasible.
Eric Kwarteng - Kumasi 7 years ago

You have spoken very well and maturely. As for that idiot called Ramadan, he is taking the whole country to ransome and creating this fear.

You have spoken very well and maturely. As for that idiot called Ramadan, he is taking the whole country to ransome and creating this fear.
Concern citizen, Kumasi 7 years ago

I like this man. Check on Manama and Akuffo Addo, what do they have? Nothing to offer Ghanaians. Saving our moneys outside Ghana is the priority of both NPP and NDC leadership

I like this man. Check on Manama and Akuffo Addo, what do they have? Nothing to offer Ghanaians. Saving our moneys outside Ghana is the priority of both NPP and NDC leadership
Concern citizen, Kumasi 7 years ago

I believed these NPP & NDC are misusing Ghanaian resources. We have a population of 26000000 and jxt go to the passport office, 9/10 Ghanaians don't have passport but issued passports are more the 20000000. Where from these p ...
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I believed these NPP & NDC are misusing Ghanaian resources. We have a population of 26000000 and jxt go to the passport office, 9/10 Ghanaians don't have passport but issued passports are more the 20000000. Where from these people. Even if we are to do a new voters register, is the EC going to do it alone? Party agents are always present but we always do a new one. I think we should take all the members on NPP & NDC to the psychiatric hospital for further examination. I can tell all ghanaians that only the poor citizens uses NHIS cards. If it's about passports, then I do support but for nhis, hmmmmm
kaketonti 7 years ago

TELL THEM.TEACH THEM.EVERYONE IS A GHANAIAN.

TELL THEM.TEACH THEM.EVERYONE IS A GHANAIAN.
Kofi Dumenenyo 7 years ago

The PPP should realise that it is through the use of the NHIS cards for voter registration that we got a lot of foreigners onto the electoral roll. Ghanaians have forgotten that in an obvious grand scheme to rig the 2012 elec ...
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The PPP should realise that it is through the use of the NHIS cards for voter registration that we got a lot of foreigners onto the electoral roll. Ghanaians have forgotten that in an obvious grand scheme to rig the 2012 election the EC had an LI passed to allow NHIS cards for voter registration. The NHIS then quickly announced they were doing free registration for those who couldn't pay and the took their machines round supposed vulnerable areas to register voters with NHIS cards. I remember vividly a news item that reported the arrest of NHIS officials in Togolese territory registering people. So what are we talking about. There are millions of unqualified people on the voter roll period!
Constable Joy 7 years ago

ON WHAT/WHICH DOCUMENT DID K4 CONTEST AND WON THE ELECTIONS TWICE? NPP MUST THE CRAB DANCE.

ON WHAT/WHICH DOCUMENT DID K4 CONTEST AND WON THE ELECTIONS TWICE? NPP MUST THE CRAB DANCE.
Constable Joy 7 years ago

Re:write:NPP MUST STOP THE CRAB DANCE

Re:write:NPP MUST STOP THE CRAB DANCE
Kwaku 7 years ago

it is out of that the EC submitted on 56000 names of people suposedly registered with NHIS. that is why the PPP is calling for the National Identification card so we stop all the brouhaha on new voters register and what a vie ...
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it is out of that the EC submitted on 56000 names of people suposedly registered with NHIS. that is why the PPP is calling for the National Identification card so we stop all the brouhaha on new voters register and what a view.
Kwobia (Toronto) 7 years ago

Well said.The two main parties are equally guilty of corrupting the voters register.They will corrupt any new register,given a chance.

Well said.The two main parties are equally guilty of corrupting the voters register.They will corrupt any new register,given a chance.
Gilbert 7 years ago

I perfectly agree with the suggestion to create a Ghanaian national ID from Birth, Untill then it's uselee to talk about Clean and credible voters register. It's just nonsense!

I perfectly agree with the suggestion to create a Ghanaian national ID from Birth, Untill then it's uselee to talk about Clean and credible voters register. It's just nonsense!
SONOFMAN 7 years ago

PPP, sorry you have failed miserably to make any sense from your write up. Instead being truthful you are rather behaving like a hypocrite. If think by refusing to support the truth and trying to sabotage the major opposition ...
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PPP, sorry you have failed miserably to make any sense from your write up. Instead being truthful you are rather behaving like a hypocrite. If think by refusing to support the truth and trying to sabotage the major opposition party it will win the PPP some public sympathy then you are deceiving yourselves.
Aduro 7 years ago

You are not helping the state to develop and I think you need to visit the counselor for an advise. You only follow the masses whether good or bad and I wish to tell you that, if it were to be just following that PPP seeks, t ...
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You are not helping the state to develop and I think you need to visit the counselor for an advise. You only follow the masses whether good or bad and I wish to tell you that, if it were to be just following that PPP seeks, then our support base is larger than your so called winning team. Is this what you want to do when you come to power? I don't think Nana Addo share your view go and ask him and come back. If you find solace in whatever the PPP is saying come and let us debate.
K.O. Owusu 7 years ago

What a good write up. PPP keep it up.

What a good write up. PPP keep it up.
Ay3ka 7 years ago

A credible person, but in all honesty, I cannot say the same thing about your Flagbearer, Paa Kwesi Nduom, who some 8 years back, was in bed with the NPP, as the Minister in charge of Public Sector Reforms! What did he accomp ...
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A credible person, but in all honesty, I cannot say the same thing about your Flagbearer, Paa Kwesi Nduom, who some 8 years back, was in bed with the NPP, as the Minister in charge of Public Sector Reforms! What did he accomplish in that portfolio, other than use the insider information he acquired, to build a financial empire! Talk to ny of his employers, and they'll tell you that he is worst than a 'slave master'!
His duplicity is legendary, as evidenced by his failed attempt to co-opt Akua Donkor!
He has already given hints about an 'unholy alliance' he is willing to forge, once again, with the NPP! Let him come and explain to the good people of this nation, why he took huge sums of money from the State, and then, failed to thoroughly perform his part of the bargain!
The guy, previously known as Paa Yorke, in his early days, is a consummate political chameleon, the like of which, this nation has not seen!
Charles 7 years ago

When you talk like this and you believe in yourself, you should be bold enough to add your real name. Coward! Dr. Nduom is not corrupt as you think and he will never be corrupt even when your false statement is to be analyze ...
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When you talk like this and you believe in yourself, you should be bold enough to add your real name. Coward! Dr. Nduom is not corrupt as you think and he will never be corrupt even when your false statement is to be analyzed. Ghana needs people like Dr. Nduom to move it forward and not people like yourself who want to use dubious means to fill your big pot bellies. When PPP is in office, like the way the British do, like the Americans and the other developed world has done, Ghana will see a change and you people will not have the opportunity to siphon Ghana's money again.
Niim3Niim3 7 years ago

Why nobody is telling this semi-educated politicians beats any well meaning Ghanaian's imagination. The NHIS Card is full identity required to receive Medical Care in Ghana. It is free to obtain but that does not mean it is a ...
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Why nobody is telling this semi-educated politicians beats any well meaning Ghanaian's imagination. The NHIS Card is full identity required to receive Medical Care in Ghana. It is free to obtain but that does not mean it is a worthless piece of I.D. Sincerely speaking as a national I.D. it passes all tests. Weighed against the other proofs of I.Ds, it is difficult to see where for example, the Birth Certificate or Passport ranks higher than the NHIS Card as means of identification. Birth Certificates are now essential in the case of those born fairly recently and even then only now becomes essential because the new mushroom Preparatory Schools requires these for registration of children into their Schools. The vast majority of old timers without Birth Certificates only require one when faced with possibility of travelling outside. Simply put, the Birth Certificate is required to obtain a National Passport whereas the NHIS is an I.D on its own with photograph of the owner.
Any old timer requiring a Birth Certificate simply walks to any Birth Registry with a name written on the back of a piece of paper i.e. the name the person wishes to be called (presumed to be his or her name). No Hospital Cards etc etc is required at all. Birth Certificate is issued in the name of Kofi Manu who has just been returned from UK for not having all information required when subjected to questioning at the Airport. Mr Adjei Boadi has now become Kofi Manu ready to go for another Passport again. This is what money can do but does not make it more legal than the NHIS Card. Since Adjei Boadi wishes no longer to be known as such, he is now Kofi Manu. However, for purposes of identification his bounced Passport, old Birth Certificates are still with him at home. This Ashanti man could soon become an Ewe now known as Godwin Amedume and now on his 10th Birth Certificate and Passport. All his I.Ds are at home and he could legally identify himself in any of his former names.
What, therefore, makes the Birth Certificate and Passports more acceptable as forms of I.Ds at time of obtaining Voters I.D and or voting than the NHIS as Card for identification to obtain Voters I.D Card? With criminal minds, any document could be compromised and therefore there is the second provision at time of voting to stick the thumb in indelible violet ink which does not wipe off in a day.
Ghana and her children are always crying against corrupt politicians but what are we now doing? Spending mother Ghana’s money for an exercise which has practically no merits of any description, i.e. expunging the names of voters who registered with the NHIS Cards. Not a single form of I.D in this world could not be compromised. The illustrious British, U.S.A, Germany etc Passports are being copied by entities within their dominions. And so what does Abu Ramadan actually hope to achieve by this wasteful venture of taking the E.C to task? How in reality did he get pass the Judiciary with this baseless and frivolous case? Is it because Judges normally are bourgeois hence could see errors in anything obtained cheaply or without cost? The most annoying aspect of this frivolous case was that he, Abu Ramadan’s own tiny Party has not got the enduring claim of being an elitist party and so it is hard to understand the motive behind his push and continuous push for this white elephant.
When my name is removed because I registered with NHIS Card, I will then have to go and obtain a fake Birth Certificate in the same name? If I am a foreign national who could as well obtain a Ghanaian Birth Certificate, must I come with my parents to certify my nationality? If a person has passed the hurdle of obtaining the NHIS Card, Driving Licence, Birth Certificate and Passport, what real benefit will be there to go after one particular form of I.D. instead of all of the above – all of which could be obtained genuinely as well as fraudulently. These I.Ds are not in themselves “the all”. The indelible violet ink seals all things on the day of voting.
Kofi 7 years ago

You are making a point but remember you need to be identified as a Ghanaian before you go to vote and be marked with the indelible ink. Indelible ink does not gives a persons identity. What we want to have is voters register ...
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You are making a point but remember you need to be identified as a Ghanaian before you go to vote and be marked with the indelible ink. Indelible ink does not gives a persons identity. What we want to have is voters register devoid of foreigners, minors, and deceased. to prevent our register from being bloated. so don't confuse all of us.
JDM 7 years ago

WHERE WAS THE SUPREME COURT WHEN PEOPLE WERE REGISTERING WITH THE NHIS CARDS?

WHERE WAS THE SUPREME COURT WHEN PEOPLE WERE REGISTERING WITH THE NHIS CARDS?
eugene 7 years ago

in Most USA states you can register when you get your driving permit, Register at the EC. All the way up to 2 months before the election.. But you must provide valid id!

in Most USA states you can register when you get your driving permit, Register at the EC. All the way up to 2 months before the election.. But you must provide valid id!
Big john@uwr 7 years ago

This Fulani man has no constituency in Ghana and will be the first to flee Ghana after he has set our country on fire. His ambition is selfish because his sister is the wife of the NPP presidential candidate, so he is fightin ...
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This Fulani man has no constituency in Ghana and will be the first to flee Ghana after he has set our country on fire. His ambition is selfish because his sister is the wife of the NPP presidential candidate, so he is fighting for an NPP victory at all cost because he would gain personnaly. If it were not so why is a former PNC party member from a party with an entirely different or opposite political ideology to the Npp canvassing on the platform of the NPP?This Fulani must be stopped before he destroys our country.
Kwame 7 years ago

Passports are used in the majority of countries in the world to vote.

Passports are used in the majority of countries in the world to vote.
Andy Akporugbo 7 years ago

No doubt with illiterates like you in PPP who cannot understand the road to a fairly credible register, Paa Kwesi Nduom is just wasting his time, he will never win anything in Ghana. You people are just chopping his money, yo ...
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No doubt with illiterates like you in PPP who cannot understand the road to a fairly credible register, Paa Kwesi Nduom is just wasting his time, he will never win anything in Ghana. You people are just chopping his money, you cannot make any impact.
Amenyo 7 years ago

if this election is all about winning and that is all, the PPP would have instituted an election rigging machine like the NDC and NPP of which you belong to one of them. We will not go that way but will make sure the right th ...
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if this election is all about winning and that is all, the PPP would have instituted an election rigging machine like the NDC and NPP of which you belong to one of them. We will not go that way but will make sure the right thing is done so we know who can win elections in this country.
Felix 7 years ago

if we want to have a credible election with a credible register, I have no doubt the National Identification System is the way to go. Mutalla, you have spoken well and I advise government should step in to bring a closure to ...
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if we want to have a credible election with a credible register, I have no doubt the National Identification System is the way to go. Mutalla, you have spoken well and I advise government should step in to bring a closure to this matter by resources the NIA now to get an identification system for the country within two months before the day of election. YES WE CAN DO IT. If we are truly serious to conduct a clean election
Gabriel 7 years ago

Des no need deleting NHIS card frm electoral register ;we shud wait nd not allow registration with NHIS card in a fresh registration. It's just wasting of time for dos who will be called again to re-register nd if am one of d ...
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Des no need deleting NHIS card frm electoral register ;we shud wait nd not allow registration with NHIS card in a fresh registration. It's just wasting of time for dos who will be called again to re-register nd if am one of dem i will vote against political parties who sent de case to court.

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