The public Relation Officer (PRO) for the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), George Ayisi, has described the National Democratic Congress (NDC) leaders as people suffering from short memory, indicating the use of the Ghana card being a requirement for voting was almost passed into law while the NDC was in power in 2012.
He said this on Movement In The Morning Show with Kwaku Dawuro.
Mr. Ayisi said ‘’the Ghana card for voting was an idea that was introduced by the opposition party, but they are going about lying to Ghanaians as if they do not know nothing about it. They have short memory. In April 2006 Parliament passed the National Identification Authority Act, 2006 (Act 707) bill to allow the disbursement of the National Identity cards. Fast forward in 2012, the then Minister of State passed the National Identity Register Regulations where the National Identity Authority (NIA) card shall be used for the registration of voters and sim card’’.
He advised Ghanaians not to pay heed to the NDC and go ahead and register for their Ghana cards to enable them exercise their Franchise.
About The Passing Of the National Identification Card By The NDC..
In April 2006, the National Identification Authority Act, 2006 (Act 707) was laid before Parliament and passed by the House.
The Act was to among others establish an Authority responsible for the issuance of national identity cards.
Two years down the lane, in January 2008, Parliament again passed the National Identity Register Act, 2008 (Act 750) which was aimed at, among others, ‘provide for the capture of personal information of individuals by the Authority for the issue of national identity cards’.
Section 18(1) of Act 707 empowers the Minister to make Legislative Instruments to, among others, ‘(i) provide for the uses to which identity cards shall be put.’
Also, Section 73(1) of Act 750 empowered the Minister to make Legislative Instruments to, among others, ‘(f) provide that every public office should demand the presentation of an identity card as a condition precedent to the provision of its service.’
Subsequently in February 2012, Alhassan Azong, the then Member of Parliament (MP) for the Builsa South and former Minister of state for Public Sector in the Mills government between 2009 and 2013
laid before Parliament, which passed the National Identity Register Regulations, 2012 (LI 2111).
The Regulation 7 of LI 2111 is titled ‘Mandatory use of national identity card, indicating in Regulation 7(1) of the LI that “A national identity card issued to an individual shall be used for the following transactions where identification is required… (j) registration of voters.. *(l) registration of SIM cards.”
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