{"id":653383,"date":"2019-07-09T23:25:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T23:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has admonished the Ghanaian people to cherish their nationality and citizenship, and should not help non-Ghanaians to obtain the National ID card \u2013 the Ghana Card.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLet us cherish our n"},"modified":"2019-07-09T23:25:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T23:25:45","slug":"dont-help-non-ghanaians-get-ghana-card-akufo-addo-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/09\/dont-help-non-ghanaians-get-ghana-card-akufo-addo-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t help non-Ghanaians get Ghana card&#8217; \u2013 Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has admonished the Ghanaian people to cherish their nationality and citizenship, and should not help non-Ghanaians to obtain the National ID card \u2013 the Ghana Card.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLet us cherish our nationality, let us cherish our citizenship. Don\u2019t let any of you be party to trying to get the Ghana card for people who are not Ghanaian. A lot of the time, it is our own people who are leading this exercise of getting non-Ghanaians our Ghana card,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Addressing a meeting of members of the Ghanaian community resident in Paris on Monday as part of his 3-day official visit to that country, the President indicated that the \u2018Ghana Card\u2019 provides certain benefits, such as access to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), to Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X5mAJT0yGJM\" width=\"697\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are trying to make sure NHIS works for Ghanaians, and we are adding non-Ghanaian population to that only strains the service. I don\u2019t think Ghanaian taxpayers should be subsidizing our healthcare for others. I say this with the greatest of respect to those who are not Ghanaian, but if you have the card, then you have the access,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He, thus, urged Ghanaians to be vigilant in making sure that only Ghanaians get the card.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThese elections that we have, some people want to translate Ghanaian elections into West African elections. We have not yet gotten to a situation where Togolese, Ivorians, Malians can vote in Ghana elections. That should not be the case. The elections should be for Ghanaians, and, if all of us are vigilant, we can make sure that that is the reality,\u201d President Akufo-Addo added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With the National Identification Authority set to complete the registration of all Ghanaians resident in the country by the end of this year, the President indicated that Ghanaians abroad will have the opportunity to receive the Ghana Card from next year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMy own belief is that we should make sure that this process is completed for everybody before we bring the election overseas. We all know that there are people holding our papers who are not necessarily Ghanaian. It is not a secret, and we shouldn\u2019t be dishonest about it and deny it. It is a fact,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo continued, \u201cIf this process of giving each of us an identity card is what is going to be able to determine who is and who is not a Ghanaian, I think that we should have that process completed before we can bring the overseas vote into play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tgqKQMirQ0Q\" width=\"534\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>On the controversial matter of the proposed building of a new Chamber of Parliament, the President stated that \u201cI am happy to announce to you also that the matter has been brought to a conclusion\u2026 I hear that today the PRO of Parliament announced that it has been suspended. So there it is!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_source\">\n<span>Source:<\/span><br \/>\ncitinewsroom.com | Ghana\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has admonished the Ghanaian people to cherish their nationality and citizenship, and should not help non-Ghanaians to obtain the National ID card \u2013 the Ghana Card. \u201cLet us cherish our nationality, let us cherish our citizenship. 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