Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA) Prof. Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah has disclose that over 15.7 million Ghanaians as of today have received their National Identification Card.
Speaking in an interview, he revealed that 16,969,034 persons have registered for the Ghana Card, with about 16,535,623 cards printed.
The urgency to have a Ghana card has risen as it has become a necessity to re-register sim cards, (an initiative issued by the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation). Also, foreigners intending to use sim card for more than 30 days in Ghana has to acquire the non-citizen Card to do so. This has all contributed to the surge in Ghana card registration as everyone fear their sim card might get deactivated.
Addressing issues where many have not received their cards, Prof. Attafuah said that there were genuine reasons why some of the cards had not been issued.
“There are people who have double-registered. That is potentially a criminal offence,” he said.
According to the Executive Secretary of the NIA, Prof. Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, 16,969,034 persons have registered for the Ghana Card but only 16,535,623 cards have been printed as of today.
“Those ones are being individually investigated. There are those whose cards have gone into adjudication, not because of double registration but because they have sought to change their vital data in the custody of the authority, such as bio-data. For such people, the system arrests their application, and it joins a queue.
“For such people, until the outstanding issues are rectified, they can’t receive their cards”. he added.
