The Nationwide Identification Authority (NIA) has withheld over 110,000 Ghana Playing cards attributable to problems with double registration.
Regardless of efficiently issuing over 18 million playing cards to Ghanaians, round 150,000 playing cards are nonetheless pending printing.
Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, the Government Secretary of the NIA, showing earlier than Parliament’s Authorities Assurance Committee, revealed that investigations into these a number of registration instances are underway.
He assured that the NIA is investigating the 110,936 instances the place people tried a number of registrations.
Professor Attafuah mentioned as of August 20, 2024, a complete of 559,457 playing cards haven’t been issued, with 150,896 playing cards cleared and prepared for printing.
The NIA was established by the Nationwide Identification Authority Act, 2006 (Act 707).
Its mandate is to create, keep, present and promote the usage of nationwide id playing cards to advance financial, political and social actions in Ghana.
To execute its mandate, NIA collects private knowledge of Ghanaians dwelling in Ghana and overseas and all completely resident overseas nationals and points them with Ghana playing cards.
As a part of its mandate, the NIA additionally ensures the accuracy, integrity, confidentiality and safety of non-public knowledge it collects and makes private knowledge in its custody accessible to individuals or establishments authorised by legislation to entry the info.
Professor Attafuah additionally revealed that it has prolonged its registration providers to Ghanaians dwelling overseas.
The authority, in collaboration with the Ministry of International Affairs and Regional Integration, is ready to pilot the abroad registration program in Ottawa, Canada.
“We selected Canada for a strategic purpose. We wished a spot the place we might take a look at the robustness, the acuteness of the technical system that we’ve designed in partnership with our technical companions.
“We wished a spot the place nearly all of the individuals who will come earlier than us looking for to register shall be individuals possessing the 2 elementary paperwork, delivery certificates or a passport,” he added.