Credible information reaching GHANAWISH.COM indicates that, the officials designated by the Ghana Post Company Limited to register customers on the Digital Addresses are charging 50GHS per every registration they do.
This as a result has slowed down the pace at which all Ghanaians must have the digital address.
Many customers are however furious about the charges in spite of it being free.
Speaking in an interview with some customers or residents at Ayigya- Kumasi, they disclosed that the Ghana Post officials do take 50 GHS from them in order to be registered.
“If you resist the amount it means you will not be registered”, they stated.
Residents of the Ejisu Municipal have also shared similar sentiments that, hardly do the Ghana Post officers approach them for the registration.
“They take 50GHS from us before we are enrolled unto the digital address; they have left some of us behind anytime we tell them it’s free”.
The Assembly Member for Besease – Jamasi in the Ejisu Municipal, Mr. Samuel Danquah known popularly as S.S has also thrown out allegations that, the Ghana Post officers have uncounted number of times boycotted his call for the registration of his communes( Besease-Jamasi).
Mr. SS said many of the people in the Ejisu Municipal and Ashanti region as a whole have not been registered for the digital address despite its adverse positive impact.
On the other hand, Mr. Emmanuel Duodu, Ashanti Regional Coordinator for Ghana Post- GPS stipulated in an interview that the Ghana Post do not incur charges on the generation of the digital address.
However, charges do occur in a situation when customers request for engraved digital plates.
“The generation of the address is free; you are not suppose to pay for it. You will only pay for the plate that the officer will provide you to paste on your building, even that one is not mandatory”. He narrated.
He added that each household is supposed to pay for 50GHS for the plate. However, business entities, churches and offices are entitled to pay 100 GHS.
*Benefits of the Digital Address*
Though the Ghana Post embarked on a thorough education before the existence of the digital address system, yet many people in the cities and rural areas are not bothered to be enrolled unto the system.
Meanwhile the Ghana Post Company has stated that the digital address is made to assist the Police, Fire service and the Ambulance Service to easily “locate your home anytime there is a misfortune”.
“Once there is a misfortune at your residence a neighbour can easily call the police, fire service and the Ambulance Service to give them your number which has been embodied in front of your vicinity for help” because all the aforementioned institutions have the addresses at their disposal.
Again, every Ghanaian will need it in order to be used for the registration NIA’s National Identification Card.
Source;GHANAWISH.COM
