He made the comment on Eyewitness News on Monday.

[contextly_sidebar id=”dJVvXGAJNQQXRJyU9MVcKsGK1cQdkpGh”]According to Mr. Ofosu Kwakye, Dr. Bawumia must desist from purporting to be educating former President Mahama on national issues since John Mahama is far knowledgeable in such issues.

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia took a swipe at John Mahama over the latter’s criticism of the government’s recently launched Digital Property Addressing System, Ghana Post GPS.

John Mahama, while addressing teeming supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) after its Unity Walk in the Central Region on Sunday, said “How can you launch a Google GPS system that is freely available on our mobile phone and say it is a national addressing system. It is such a pity. Why will you embarrass the president so much? You go and take a whole president to bring him to come and launch a system that is 419,” but Bawumia believes Mahama’s comment was from an ill-informed position.

He said, “I read that the former President described Ghana’s National Digital Addressing system as a 419 scam. When I read his reasoning for such a description, it became very evident to me that he has no clue about what he was talking about and was just engaged in parroting propaganda. I actually had a good laugh.”

But Felix Ofosu Kwakye said the Vice President’s response to his former boss was merely propaganda.

“Listening to the Vice President, with the greatest respect to him, one could mistake him for a hapless NPP serial caller repeating the propaganda lines that they became so enamored of in the run-up the 2016 elections. He came across as a man whose hyperbolic description of the Ghana Post App has been punctured by sound technical analysis by people who understand the sector and applications like that. The Vice President is by no means an IT expert, so what he read, was merely what he has been told by the people who developed the app,” he said.

“Several independent experts have assessed this app and pointed out deep flaws which do not justify the amount of money that has been invested into it….What government is required to do, is to take on board the criticisms of the experts who have spoken and to look into talks about inflation of the cost of the app. It does not lie in the mouth of the Vice President to come and purport to educate John Mahama on anything,” he added.

Meanwhile, a Deputy Minister for Communication, George Andah, says the former President’s comment indicated that he lacked understanding of the operations of digital property addressing systems.

He said John Mahama has embarrassed himself with the comment and his handlers must be blamed for the wrong information he put out.

Ghana won’t pay Google for address system after 2017 – Andah

Government does not intend to make any more license payments to Google, beyond 2017, for embedding the company’s online map into the country’s newly designed National Digital Property Addressing System, Ghana Post GPS.

The management of Ghana Post had announced that Ghana is to pay Google an amount of $400,000 as a licensing fee annually, for making use of the tech giant’s Google Maps platform.

But speaking on The Big Issue on Citi FM, the Deputy Communications Minister, George Andah, noted that “there are other solutions that are going to come down the line.”

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Revellers had used the Find My iPhone app, which shows the location of a linked phone on laptops or other devices, Indio Police said.

And a suspect had then been “followed” through the site and detained.

Several phones had been returned immediately, the police added.

‘Chatter’

And the rest had been handed to lost property at the festival site.

Police had already dedicated extra resources to the festival after “chatter on social media” about missing iPhones, Sgt Dan Marshall told tech news site Gizmodo.

But “in this case, the fans came through”.

Festival-goers have been advised to:

• keep valuables in front rather than back pockets
• ensure all valuables are not kept together
• carry a dummy wallet to fool thieves

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Source: BBC

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Several traders, after being ejected from their shops at the Nkrumah Circle, have now set up their structures under the flying beam and along the main road adjacent to the construction site to sell their goods.

Items being sold by traders at the Circle area include; second hand clothing, phones, food stuffs and electrical items.

Speaking to citifmonline.com, most of the traders insisted they have no intention of leaving the area as they had nowhere to go having been displaced prior to the destruction of the footbridge.
“They cannot sack us from here because the chief contractor gave us permission to sell here because he had pity on us. If they sack us, we will come back here because we cannot engage in armed robbery” – she said

Meanwhile, the Safety Officer at the site a contractor on site, Andrew Kofi Amoateng has warned that the refusal of the traders to move from the construction site could result in a possible delay of the project and has called on authorities to intervene since several attempts by contractors to relocate these traders have so far proved futile.

“We have sacked them several times, they go and come back again. When we ask the AMA to take their things away, they will go and bring them back here again.  If something happens to them they will say it is the construction workers. This can affect our schedule because when you block something it is difficult for that thing to move forward.”

About the three-tier interchange at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle 

The Kwame Nkrumah Circle is a key intersection in the major road network in Accra. About 84,000 vehicles use it daily and constitutes a key bottleneck in the major road network that links the suburban areas of Accra to the central business district.

The 74.88 million euro project is being jointly financed with credit from the Brazilian Government and the Ghana Government.

According to the project design, the first of the interchanges will link the Akasanoma Road to the Nsawam Road, around the Vodafone building.

The other interchange will link the Nsawam Road to the Nkrumah Avenue, around the Ghana Commercial Bank building, while the third interchange will link Ring Road Central to Ring Road West.

By: Benjamin Epton Owusu/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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