Ghana Card Registration Not Working As Envisaged – Prof. Ken Attafuah
Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority [NIA], Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah has said he gets worried on most occasions when he visits registration centres.
He said the exercise is not working as they envisaged due to the challenges he met during his tour to most registration centres in the Accra West areas, even though some officers on the field are doing their work well per observation and reports from residents.
“It is not our wish that citizens suffer or go through stress in getting themselves registered on the Ghana Card. It is unfortunate that the number of machines needed for the exercise are not sufficiently in place, while some centres also experience network problems delaying the printing of the cards,” he indicated on UTV’s ‘Adekye Nsroma’ programme.
Prof. Ken Attafuah blamed some of his trained workers on the field for not working as they were trained to do.
The National Identification Authority (NIA) has urged residents of the Accra West Zone, where the mass registration ended on Saturday, May 25, to collect their Ghana cards at some designated collection points in the Municipalities.
It said residents who would be unable to register during the mass registration exercise in the Accra West Zone would be able to do so at District and Regional offices to be set up by NIA after the mass registration exercise.
A statement issued by the Authority, and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra, on Saturday, explained: "The NIA is unable to grant the request to extend the duration of the mass registration exercise in the said Zone as doing so will adversely affect the published national roll-out strategy."
The statement, signed by Mr Francis Palmdetti, the Head of Corporate Affairs, said the collection points would be located in the following areas:
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