The 2020 flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress has made a passionate appeal to the management of the National Identification Authority, to speed up the process of issuing the Ghana card.
Speaking at the climax of the Dumba festival in Wa, in the Upper West Region, John Dramani Mahama said, there have been complaints about the slow process in several regions and it looks like that experience is playing out again in the Upper West.
“Next year is an election year and the Ghana Card is going to be one of the identification means to show that people are Ghanaians. Therefore it is important that as many Ghanaians who seek to acquire the card get it,” he pointed out.
JoyNews Correspondent, Rafiq Salam reports that the former president further called on the Authority to be up and doing if their challenge is logistic in nature.
“If it is a question of equipment, I think that the National Identification Authority should be up and doing so that as many people in this region can acquire the card,” he appealed.
The NIA came into being in 2003 under the Office of the President.
It has a mandate to issue national ID cards and manage the National Identification System (NIS).
The government passed the NIA Act, 2006 (Act 707) to give it the necessary legal premise on which to operate.
The Authority says it has registered 2,902,526 eligible Ghanaians in the Greater Accra, Volta and Oti regions since the registration started on June 4, 2018.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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this man a hypocrite beyond hell! what did you when you were in office? what did you also tell the opposition in Parliament to do when the government started to issue the card. please you cannot deceive ghanaians anymore with your shinny white teeth into the crocodiles' den again!
Corrupt man... Are you now begging? Your corrupt NDC party advised its members to boycott the process.... NDC nation wreckers....
In fact this man paaaaa! He thinks we are kids! It would have been better for NDC if their Presidential candidate were different. Because any attack on the Akufo-Addo government would have been legitimate, because that person was not part of Mahama regime. You were vice-president and president for 8 years, Kuffour handed to you this ID card you are lamenting over, what happened? Please be serious and stop the child's play..
When this thing started you told your party people to boycott You even went to court to try to stop because the NIA wants to make sure only Ghanaians should register
You were in power 8 years and refused to do it. Pls allow the system to work. The system is fraught with procedural problems but overall they doing a good work. If you had started it during your reign they would have fine tune and finished by now. Like your founder said sometimes you need to listen to yourself when you are speaking.