A former Deputy Minister for Communication, Felix Ofosu Kwakye, has likened Vice President Bawumia’s recent utterances on Ghana’s Digital Property Addressing System to political serial callers who call into FM stations to rant over issues.
He made the comment on Eyewitness News on Monday.
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 heartless 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.”
Source: citifmonline.com
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FELIX, I WAS STILL WITH YOU LIKE YESTERYEAR'S I WOULD NOT COMMENT. BUT JOHN MAHAMA AND EVEN THE ENTIRE NDC NEED BAWUMIA IT EDUCATION. IF U CLAIM YOU ITC GURUS IN NDC; INCLUDING MAHAMA, HOW COME U COULD NOT DEVELOP A SIMPLE EXCEL SHEET TO COLLATE THE 2016 ELECTION RESULTS
WHOEVER COMPARES MAHAMA TO ALMIGHTY BAWUMIA MUST BE CLUELESS, THIIEF LIKE JDM OR BOTH. SIMPLY PUT, MAHAMA HAS NOT CHANGE, HE IS A BIG DISGRACE TO GHANA AND A LEADER OF GROUP OF THIEFS
Ofosu Kwakye or Kwakye Ofosu: John Mahama is far knowledgeable in which issues? Are u hallucinating or day dreaming? Or you are just singing praises? For 8yrs that Mahama was in power, his utterances were not smart enough. I always wondered if Mahama was the same man I loved listening to when he was the Minister of Information and MP for Bole Bamboi. In fact Bawumia is way ahead of JM on all issues. Truth be told.
I don't think any sane person would keep mute when his intergrity is being attacked and called into question. If you hit a ball against a wall it comes bak at you. If you also live in a glass house, you dont throw stones. Prez mahama, desirous of relaunching his presidential comeback, using the ndc platform, decided to use Dr Bawumiah as his springboard. Expectanctly, he got what he deserved from Dr. Bawumiah. So. Mr. Kwakye Ofosu must respect the right of the vice prez of an appropriate response.
Masa go bring the 'comfortable lead' back-up and stop the rushing.
Coming from Kwakye Ofosu is no surprising at all. This 1diot has used worst invectives on the Dr Bawumia in times past so this is expected. When they are throen into jail, then they will know that the "wages of sin is jail"
Look at this Ofosu Kwakye guy too. Am not surprised at all. MAHAMA sponsored him with state money to study abroad and assissted him to steeeaaaaal our monies so he has mouth o defend his Fiafitor, Julor JdM. Now he can trace someone for a father so he is too known. A complete BAASSTARD boy
The VP should have just kept quite for sometime for the many Ghanaian's who are in doubt of the Digital Property Addressing System to work properly before commenting. l think the VP thinks he's still campaigning. Most times silence is golden.
Ei, so you’ve not stopped the stuuuupidity. You didn’t challenge one thing Dr. Bawumia said yet you refer to experts. Mention the experts and what was said specifically about the GHANAPOSTGPS that makes it so wrong. My brother, you can’t win power with this. Get serious!!!
While countries like Nigeria, Cape Verde, Equitorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau are leap frogging in terms of HDI's and are miles ahead of Ghana, your Vice president is child playing with your economy, and surprisingly there are people applauding his infantile comments....Those coming up against him are the real and respectable politicians, Ghanaians...Its as if out of extreme poverty, you dont travel outside your own perimeters, and this gives reasons why you dont think out of the box. And when others are doing it you seek to pull them down...What is wrong with you people...This government is not doing things right.;He is messing with you people.