NDC Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, says he may lose his seat if he registers for the Ghana card.
According to him, his constituents will not be happy with him since a number of them may not be issued the cards over lack of passports and birth certificates to proof their Ghanaian citizenship.
“We are raising genuine concerns. As Members of Parliament, we are raising concerns of our constituents. I tell you that, if me, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, North Tongu MP goes and register and I go back to North Tongu, I’m not coming back to Parliament; because they [constituents] will say that I’ve gone to do an elitist thing and left them behind when they don’t have passports or birth certificates,” he stated on Citi TV’s morning show, Breakfast Daily on Wednesday.
The Minority in Parliament has mounted pressure on the National Identification Authority (NIA) to include the voters ID card as a proof of Ghanaian citizenship for the issuance of the Ghana card, but the NIA is adamant.
The Minority, as a result, boycotted the registration for parliamentarians which have since ended.
Currently, the NIA only accepts a passport or a birth certificate as proof of citizenship per the law that regulates their work.
But the Minority said about 20 millions of Ghanaians may not be able to register due to the stringent identification requirement.
Ablakwa on Breakfast Daily insisted that he will not register for the card if the NIA fails to address the Minority’s concerns which he insists are “genuine.”
“This country people go and apply for passports only when there is a trip to make. When they are not traveling they don’t see the essence of having a passport,” he added.
Kufuor backs use of voter ID for Ghana Cards
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has backed calls for the NIA to accept voters ID card as a proof of Ghanaian citizenship for the issuance of the Ghana card.
Speaking to journalists in Accra on Tuesday after he was registered, Mr. Kufuor said it is necessary for the voters ID card to be added as a form of identification.
Source: citinewsroom.com
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comot for there most of your constituent are Togolese, ediiot, were you not in parliament when the bill was passed, ndc would not cease to amaze me it is made up of buffoooons who act before they think, kwashia buuuului
"TRAMOL TALK"!!!!
It will be a very good news if you lose your seat..... You NDC guys are only thinking of elections. Remember Ghana card is not for voting..... What about those who are under 18 years who do not have voters ID? Were you sleeping when the NIA bill was being discussed in parliament? These NDC double salary thifs must be removed from parliament. These NDC guys are nation wreckers
The word is ‘doubt’. I DOUBT you’re at Legon....
how can legislator pass a law and come back to tell us that it is not in the interest of his people..do we daunt when Kenedy Agyepong said our parliament is ***barred word***.National I.D,Card is not a voting card so he can decide not register.
Whether prez Kufuor likes it or not, no Voter ID will be accepted!! Period. GHANA CARD IS NOT FOR VOTING. HOW CAN WE TAX THE TOGOLESE AND BURKINABE'S WHO ARE RESIDENTS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY IF WE USE VOTER ID. If we register them with Voter ID, they will only come here to vote for NDC. How do we tax them or make sure they pay tax while they live in their respective countries? Will NDC go to their countries to collect the tax?
IT YOU HAVE A LOOSE GOVERNMENT WHO FEARS HIS OPPOSITION THATS WHAT HAPPENS.LOOK AT FOOLLL ABLAKWA.
if loose your seat na aye den? All you think of is to be power and not the well being of your people.
FOOOOOLLLLISSH GUY ILLITERATE GUY.THATS WHY UP TILL NOW YOU HAVE HAVE A DEGREE.
If you will lose your seat if you register then of what ID are your constituents going to use to vote for you and how will you get to parliament without the 2020 elections, you people are f000**00ls papa! This Ghana card is the passport to parliament and how do you go there without it and without elections and how are your people going to vote without the Card? contradiction and ridiculous! hahahahahaha! I tell you, there will be a time they will ask for Ghana card and they won't get! hahahahaha! the government is on course and Ghanaians have asked them not to listen to the ndc but keep going! mob3 president draw ! agyimi*fuo kuo