Ghana Card will now be done in people’s homes, NIA confirms

According to a recent 3News story, the National Identification Authority (NIA) has pledged to make it easier for Ghanaians living in households and densely populated areas to register for national identity cards.

The NIA’s executive secretary, Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, announced this welcome news on TV3.

He stated that his organization will ensure that all Ghanaians are registered in order to effectively complete the SIM re-registration.

Additional registration locations would be opened, according to Prof. Attafuah, to help people who have not yet signed up for the program.

He told Alfred Ocansey, “We are going to broaden and deepen the possibilities within the fiscal allotment.”

In addition to our offices that are open, we also provide household registration facilities, institutional registration facilities, and premium registration facilities.

However, he acknowledged that his team wouldn’t be able to register everyone in time to fulfill the deadline set by Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister of Communications and Digitalization, for the SIM card re-registration effort.

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He argued that the authority operates without a time limit and was established by law to exist forever.

In terms of human resources, it is not sufficient to meet the needs that are, in a sense, anticipated to arise at this time. That was not how we were set up.

“We were set up to finish mass registration and then to have continuous registration through the regional and district offices. That is the scheme prescribed by law and that is the scheme we are implementing and we are doing so in perpetuity. There is no timeline and the intendment of the law is that people will go to the NIA at their leisure and pleasure to go and get registered and those people will be those who were not captured during registration.”

He added that the Authority is poised to liaise with metropolitan, municipal, and district chief executives (MMDCEs) and police commands to move into communities to register unregistered residents.

“We know that people must have their cards. So, we are going to implement measures that will allow us, for example, we are at the district and regional offices. Where it is feasible to move from [there] into a community that is not a district office but a lot of people are there and they don’t have their cards, we will liaise with the metropolitan, municipal, and district chief executives and with the police command to provide us with transportation and other logistics to see how much we can enter into the communities outside official prescribed locations to try and issue cards to people.”