The National Chairman of the National Demotric Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia says the utilization of the Ghana Card as sole evidence of qualification for imminent electors in the following general election has its own difficulties.
He says the EC's decision to reject different types of ID in the citizen payment exercise won't determine the difficulties going up against the political decision the board body regarding safeguarding the honesty of the electing roll.
Talking in a Meeting with Bliss News' Honored Sogah on The Beat, Mr. Asiedu Nketia said, "people who are holding Ghana Card likewise has its own difficulties regardless of whether each Ghanaian has it. Do you realize frantic individuals reserve the privilege to get the resident's card? Do you have at least some idea that undischarged bankrupts reserve the privilege to claim a Ghana card?
"So you need to give the card to a distraught individual and when he presents it at the enrollment community you can't stop him, yet an individual who is dynamic and caution and who doesn't have the card can't take part in the decisions?
"So look, one wellspring of ID report is great, yet don't allow us to abuse it. Let us go progressively and ensure that we have gotten to a place where there is no excess," he said.
The NDC Executive was responding to the legitimization presented by the Director of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa when she tended to Parliament over the proposed Sacred Instrument (CI) on constituent changes in front of the 2024 general election.
She demonstrated that the utilization of the Ghana Card is to safeguard the respectability of the electors register.
She added that it will likewise keep unfit people from impacting races in the nation, in this manner "having a say on who ought to oversee our country."
In the mean time the resistance NDC says it won't withdraw in its "activity save our majority rules government" as Mr. Nketia expresses Individuals from Parliament on the NDC ticket have been coordinated to kick against the CI.
The meeting will air at 3:00pm on the JoyNews Channel