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NHIS card as a form of identity must be accepted by law

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  • Who 7 years ago

    As a trokosi who had registered your Togolese family by using NHIS cards, you will definitely not agree with the Supreme Court but who cares what you want, you can go and burn the sea.

  • Mike frm Ho. 7 years ago

    Hmm. Let us wiat and see where the Supreme Court is slowly driving Ghana to. Only God knows. For me it looks like, because some people are afraid of the NPP treaths, what they say must be done. Birth Right Mentality to be pre ...
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  • Pumpuni 7 years ago

    "...sounds like reactionary argument for some of us..." The reason is simple: your arguments are reactionary.

  • Peter Dogbe 7 years ago

    Only citizens of Ghana are eligible to register to vote in Ghana.

    The NHIS card in its current format and form does not confirm the citizenship of the cardholder.

    Therefore, NHIS card by law cannot be used to register t ...
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  • HolyGhost 7 years ago

    So what should be used as an ID if a person has no ID but is a Ghanaian, give us the alternative.

  • Hon.Sam 7 years ago

    There is no alternative,just get an ID card,simple.

  • COBY 7 years ago

    DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY NIGERIANS AND TOGOLESE WHO HAS THIS CARDS...

  • BOY KOFI 7 years ago

    Apart from Passport or National ID card,any form of national identification is bogus and unconstitutional.I totally agree with the Supreme Court that NHIS Card is not a national identification document.In this same logic,a dr ...
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  • Maestro 7 years ago

    Duck off, you illiterate fool, are you smarter than the Supreme Court Judges, you stinking Fool.

  • Yaw 7 years ago

    The reactionary forces will always frustrate Ghana's forward march. They will always for this backward thinking at polls. 2016 will not be different. The supreme court can do whatever it wants, but it cannot decide the electi ...
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  • Yaw 7 years ago

    If the supreme court wants to fair, then it must cancel the Talensi, Amenfi West, Abuakwa north bye elections and the pending bye elections because NHIS cards were used to vote. Backward thinking of supreme court

  • Bamfo K, Toronto - Canada 7 years ago

    Mr Dadzie, please go to Canada or the United States to find out if just being a resident and paying taxes is enough to qualify someone to participate in elections. U must be a Citizen; Period !

  • Kofi 7 years ago

    Do we have to copy every nonsense that comes from America? My 90 year old parents don"t have birth certs/passports but they can proof to any Idiotic government official in Ghana that they have lived in the same town/village ...
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  • Kofi 7 years ago

    And their ancestors have lived

  • samuel azumah 7 years ago

    my dear Ghanaian people,the sc is composed of learned people.we must respect their decisions.individuals could make mistake but their decisions must be taken seriously.anybody who vote in Ghana is a GHANAIAN.the sc has asked ...
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  • SIMPLE TRUTH 7 years ago

    Dazie, in how many AFRICAN countries have you REGISTED and VOTED?Just stop your ndc THINKING, this is the MENTALITY of other NATIONALS who without any REASON ,and INTENTION find themselves in GHANA,and their parents not RESPE ...
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  • KOO 7 years ago

    The perception that Commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote in the UK as some people wants us to understand is wrong.Only Commonwealth citizens with permits(Leave to Remain in the UK)can take part.These are people with inde ...
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  • AGBESI BERNARD 7 years ago

    You are not reasonable at all. Will these Liberians, indians and others u mentioned allow you to vote in their country if u had stayed there long enough just as they have stayed in your country? I am dissappointed in you. Are ...
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  • Pelicles 7 years ago

    Do you really understand what commonsense is/means? I hope not else, you will never attempt to tell us that a six months old baby can "run faster than Usain Bolt.

    In any advance democracy where people use their brains to r ...
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  • George Nutsugah 7 years ago

    The NHIS cards can be acquired by anybody residing in Ghana be he / she a Ghanaian or foreigner. It therefore cannot serve as a national ID.