{"id":210682,"date":"2016-05-01T13:15:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T13:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=210682"},"modified":"2016-05-01T13:15:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T13:15:30","slug":"implementation-of-national-id-system-a-must-nduom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=210682","title":{"rendered":"Implementation of National ID system a must &#8211; Nduom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The 2012 flagbearer of the PPP Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom has described the current state of the national identification system as unfortunate.\u00a0 He made this point on a post he put up on facebook on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to Dr. Nduom &#8220;whenever the subject of a national identification system is discussed, reference is only made to registration of voters, politics and voting,&#8221; a situation he described as unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He accused some greedy politicians of stalling the national registration process saying &#8220;it is politics and greed on the part of some public officials who want to benefit from inflated contracts that have prevented this important system from being implemented&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Citing the importance of the national identification registration system, he asked for reasons &#8220;Why this system stalled in implementation since 2008?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to Dr. Nduom he is &#8220;reliably informed that more than 10 million people have been registered by the National Identification Authority and the figure could be a lot more than that&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He therefore expressed the belief that &#8220;it is only the use of the national identification database that can lead us to a credible voters&#8217; register and make it possible for the continuous registration of voters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He said that &#8220;the exercise going on now, the limited registration of voters and methods being used point to poverty of ideas and the clinging to mediocrity&#8221;. In his view a national identification based voters&#8217; register can be completed <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1010453435\"><span class=\"aQJ\">in four months<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He concluded by calling for ghanaians to do better &#8220;we can do better that this. If we use our God-given talents well and stop foolish politics, paradise will be ours in Ghana&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 flagbearer of the PPP Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom has described the current state of the national identification system as unfortunate.\u00a0 He made this point on a post he put up on facebook on Saturday. According to Dr. Nduom &#8220;whenever the subject of a national identification system is discussed, reference is only made to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":210684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}