A private legal practitioner, Francis Kojo Kwarteng Arthur, has sued the National Identification Authority (NIA) over its demand for digital address codes as a requirement for acquiring the Ghana Card.
Mr. Arthur is praying the High Court to pronounce that requirement as an illegality.
Speaking on Okay FM's 'Ade Akye Abia' programme, he explained that the digital address code is being powered by Ghana Post and that there is no requirement in the act that states that you should produce it for a Ghana card.
"I got the Ghana Post and Courier Services Act and regulations, I looked through it whether I will see anything personalizing the digital address code; there was nothing there.
"I’m a lawyer and I’ve been denied. What about the ordinary person on the streets. So then I decided to test it in court.
“I decided to test it because my reading indicated, my research indicated that there is no Act, there is no principal enactment operationalising the digital address code.
"I want the court to declare that the digital address code is an illegality and, hence, prospective applicants or Ghanaian citizens who are willing and present themselves at the NIA to be registered should not be denied the Ghana Card on the basis of not having a digital address code," he said.
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Sometimes in writing you address of a form, you need to cut it short in order to optimize the space allocated. Do you think everything is perfect in America?
LAWYER BANZA .. ARE YOU GOOD CITIZEN OR A BAD CITIZEN. IF YOU HAVE A GOOD IDEAS OR BETTER ADVICE FOR YOUR COUNTRY YOU JUST GIVE IT TO THE GOVERNMENT NOT TO SUE YOUR OWN COUNTRY .. IF YOU ARE BROOK AND NEED MONEY THIS IS NOT GOOD WAY
Mr. Lawyer. Go back to the Law School you attended to collect your school fees.Your teachers did not teach you reasoning, to be independent of thought and seeking information from the right source. Did you ask the NIA the essence of the digital address in their operations?
Massa the thing was fraught with fraud. Even the NIA boss confessed that it is deficient. The vice president just lopted from the state with his hench men. Just ask anybody about GhanaPost dogital address and no one knows. The man chop Ghana money nyafunyafu
Some lawyer, apuuu
This is I dot of a too known lawyer who was heading the information services department and was fired for the brochure of the independence day celebrations which made Uhuru Kenyatta our president. Hmmmh Ghana. If he were charged for causing financial loss, he would be screaming witch hunting by now. He should shut his beak now and forever hold his peace
Oh Ghana blackmen when are we going to learn? everyone knows all due to this we are always at same place. " immobile". Only address too unless we go to court to shew our krakyi power. How can one get an ID without address? well myself I don't support the way the ID is being handled so..... Busy for nothing people.
Ignorance to the highest order. How can you be looking for the requirement for NIA registration in a Post Office Act? What kind of legal research is this lawyer claiming he has done? If you are still analogue just get a 3 year old to teach you how to use a smartphone to check your digital address. The fact that you cannot find something in a particular act or law does not make it illegal. When you wake up in the morning which law permits you to pee? So the fact that there is no law which says you should pee does not making peeing when you wake-up in the morning illegal.
Dont display your 'stupeedity' here. Kuraseeeni.
Enemy of progress. Something that you can use your phone to generate, you want to take this to court? You think you are smart, it is utter noonesense. Something you can get by standing in front of your house, you want to side step that and go to court?