{"id":434813,"date":"2017-11-06T19:26:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T19:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/06\/bawumia-schools-clueless-mahama-on-address-system\/"},"modified":"2017-11-06T19:26:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T19:26:58","slug":"bawumia-schools-clueless-mahama-on-address-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/06\/bawumia-schools-clueless-mahama-on-address-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia schools \u2018clueless\u2019 Mahama on Address System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dr-bawumia-475x267.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has described former President John Mahama as clueless, after he claimed the National Digital Property Addressing Systems is fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p>Ex President Mahama addressing a teeming crowd of NDC supporters in Cape Coast on Sunday said the government must hold someone accountable for paying for a service that is available on mobile phones already through google map.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c\u2026.Otherwise, how can you launch a whopping GPS system that is freely available on our mobile phones and say it is the best national addressing system?\u2026 It\u2019s such a pity. Why would you embarrass the president so much?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Mahama noted.<\/p>\n<p>But in a response, Vice President Bawumia said he had a very good laugh when he read Mr Mahama\u2019s reasoning for that description, adding that it was very evident to him that Mr Mahama has no clue about what he was talking about and was just engaged in parroting propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>He took time to educate the former President and critics of the system, explaining that, the system is a<em> \u201cnational database system that provides the digital address for every landed property in Ghana.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBasically 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. It relies on surveyed data from Lands Commission and the Latitude and Longitudes to generate postcodes and addresses for every square inch of Ghana.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr Bawumia stressed that Ghana\u2019s system is \u201cindependent of Google and any other mapping tool\u201d adding that \u201cGoogle 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital Addressing system will benefit Ghanaians \u2013 Bawumia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Vice President stated that, the 2.5 million dollar system will be beneficial to Ghanaians and cannot be compared to the millions blown by the Mahama government in the bus branding, SADA scandals and others that rocked his government.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe did not spend it on Akonfem, bus branding, over-priced mansions and contracts, ghost roads, etc. We have spent it on something productive. As a result, Ghana has an excellent digital property addressing system if\u00a0 former president Mahama would care to take some time and just read and learn about it. It was developed by Ghanaians and we should collectively take pride in their work and not try to pull them down.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=1136575713042949&version=v2.3\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has described former President John Mahama as clueless, after he claimed the National Digital Property Addressing Systems is fraudulent. Ex President Mahama addressing a teeming crowd of NDC supporters in Cape Coast on Sunday said the government must hold someone accountable for paying for a service that is available on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":434814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bawumia schools \u2018clueless\u2019 Mahama on Address System - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/06\/bawumia-schools-clueless-mahama-on-address-system\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Bawumia schools \u2018clueless\u2019 Mahama on Address System - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has described former President John Mahama as clueless, after he claimed the National Digital Property Addressing Systems is fraudulent. 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