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Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, on Tuesday, responded to claims by former President John Dramani Mahama over the National Digital Property Addressing System (NDPAS) that he (Dr. Bawumia) has embarrassed President Akufo-Addo by introducing the project.
Ex-President Mahama, addressing party members and supporters at a Unity walk in the Central Region, stated that the Vice President is an embarrassment to the Akufo-Addo administration for having an existing digital addressing system developed for $2.5 million by local IT firm Vokacom, when the same technology could have been obtained from Google on mobile phones without any cost.
The software, Ghana Post GPS was initiated by the government to help digitize the economy.
But to Ex-President Mahama, the system is nothing but a ploy by the government to swindle Ghanaians.
“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.
"When we talk about accountability, this is where the president should show that he is serious about corruption...The toughness of the fight against corruption is that you are able to take action against your own people and that is what we did when we were in office. Here the NPP seems unable to take, the president seems unable to take self-action in anything," Mr. Mahama said.
The former President's remarks seem not to have gone down well with the Vice President who replied in a caustic manner during the Consultative Forum Towards A Marshall Plan for Agriculture, saying "when I read his (Mr. Mahama) reasoning for such a description, it was 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. Let me therefore take this opportunity to educate him and others who may think like him about Ghana’s landmark digital property addressing which has been achieved in less than one year, something his government could not do in eight years!"
Addressing the Vice President's comments on Peace FM's Kokrokoo, seasoned journalist Kwesi Pratt believes there are serious defects with the GhanaPost GPS that need to be resolved by the government.
To him, it will do Dr. Bawumia much good should he refrain from replying every criticism directed at the project, especially by the former President.
Mr. Pratt, in his submission, further punched holes in the Dr. Bawumia's responses to the Former President.
Quoting from the Vice President's statement that the “NDPAS (National Digital Property Addressing System) is a national database system that provides the digital address for every landed property in Ghana. Basically every 5x5m property has a unique digital address on the grid with region, district and postcode. Under this system, 16.1 billion addresses have been generated for the whole of Ghana...", Mr. Pratt mocked the mathematical calculations by the Vice President saying his "mathematics doesn't work out".
This is because "Ghana's total land area is 238533 square meters. The mathematics doesn't work out. If you divide this figure by 5 meters, you'll not get 16.1 billion. Those who know mathematics and listening to me should their mathematics".
He questioned the uniqueness of the NDPAS because to him, the same opportunities have been created by Google.
To him, it doesn't also make sense to say the system is independent of Google as claimed by the Vice President in his statement that "the NDPAS is independent of Google and any other mapping tool. Google will not give the postcode, region or district for a particular location for example. It will not give you a register of addresses for every user. Banks for example cannot confirm an address by going to Google maps but they can do so through the NDPAS for registered users".
"The same Vice President tells us that it is dependent on Google. If it's independent of Google, it's independent of Google. It cannot be independent of Google and still dependent on Google map. It is not possible...Something cannot be independent and dependent at the same time", Mr. Pratt posited.
He also raised concerns over the multiple addresses the system creates when being generated by users among other issues, saying the system is problematic and unreliable.
“The system can be improved. It can become trustworthy. It can become reliable. As it is now, it is not”.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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ANY TIME UNCLE KWESI TALKS SOME IRRESPONSIBLE MYOPIC AND SHALLOW MINDED PEOPLE IN SOCIETY CATCHES COLD BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT MATCH THE DEEP SENSE THAT IS SPEAKING. WHETHER HE'S A MATHEMATICIAN OR NOT HE'S WELL VERSED IN HIS FIELD OF CAREER. BAWUMIA SHOULD STOP THE INFANTILE SPEWS AND BEHAVE AS A LEARNED VEEP AND A PROFESSIONAL IN THAT REGARD. THUMBS UP, UNCLE KWESI, FOR THE IN DEPTH EDUCATION ON THE GPS SOFTWARE.
Thank you Kwesi for being a good linguistically gifted journalist. You are a good language detective. I am impressed by the way you pay attention to how politicians use the English Language to swindle. Language is one of the roads that leads to a human's mind. You were able to trace backwards into a brilliant mind. It takes a brilliant mind to know a brilliant mind enough to challenge it. Good job Kwesi. I am proud of you. Keep them on their toes.
Kwesi Pratt Did you offer modern math or traditional math at the secondary level?Infact do not bring your ignorance in math out.otherwise you will regret.5*5 square meter is an area dimensions not length.So you acn not take only one dimension of the area which is obviously a length and use it to divide the total area of Ghana which is in square meter.This is sacrilegious in mathematics and physics.Kindly stay in your comfort zone;propaganda
I see no why reason Nana Addo has just given himself to this young liar. Dr Bawumia does not speat through at all , today he sais this tomorrow he turns to another thing. I got to know this lair from court, I and you were not there, If NPP will let this lair leads them to response matters then NPP will fall into a prey. The whole system is completely 419. JJ Rawlings must also think well before going to such occasions because he and his wife were also there clapping for such 419 system scams
i v never taken him serious hes part of the NDC communication team they are sent text messages every morning on how to twist and turn the facts u listening to fred avenyo koku pratt and the all sing from the same hymn book on every issue his brains v been bought
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That, Vice President Dr. Bawumia has reduced Governance to Propaganda is just a wishful thinking of the NDC Propaganda Communicators.Anyone who wants Ghanaians to believe that Bawumia is making mere Propaganda is living in a fuuuuul's paradise. The Vice President has made his mark which is so high and remarkable that to undo it, would take NDC 20 good years in Opposition just only to realize that Ghanaians are politically matured and strongly reject cheap, hollow and baseless politicking.The good Dr Bawumia put up issued based argumentation with facts during the election campaign and the good People of Ghana voted massively for his Party. Whilst NDC lost and failed misserably in her illusional Propaganda euphoria. Kwesi Pratt has a new assignment to join the NDC Propaganda machine to run down the reputation of the Vice Pr. Bawumia. A despirate attempt, indeed.
CORRECTION @ Ghana ba. The conversion is about AREA (square kilometers to square meters) and NOT distance. I humbly ask you to critically check your maths. tnx
IF YOU KNEW MORE MATHS THAN BAWUMIA, YOU WILL BE WORKING AT THE IMF NOT LICKING NDC BOTTOM TO MAKE YOUR LIVING. BY THE WAY WHERE IS THE V8 JOHN MAHAMA STOLE FOR YOU. YOU WILL VOMIT IT SOON. yOUR BIG MOUTH. SHUT IT UP.
Kwame, if that is your real name. who taught you maths? km to m is just multiply by 1000 and not 10,000. kilo means 1000. please learn your maths well. 238535 x 1000=238,535,000 divide it by 5 =47,707,000. please don't embarrass yourself next time. the fact that you hate kwasi Pratt doesn't mean you should give us polluted answers. learn your maths well.