The National Identification Authority (NIA) has issued more than 15,7 million Ghana Cards, while 808 493 cards have been produced but have not yet been distributed.
Prof. Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, Executive Secretary of the NIA, reports that 16,969,034 people have registered for the Ghana Card, but only 16,535,623 cards have been manufactured as of today.
According to him, there were valid reasons why some of the cards were not granted.
“There are people who have double-registered. That is potentially a criminal offence,” Mr Attafuah said in an interview on Citi FM.
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“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”.
SOURCE: GRAPHIC ONLINE
