Over 100,000 Ghanaians are reportedly being investigated by the National Identification Authority (NIA) for allegedly trying to register for the Ghana Card more than once.
NIA’s Executive Secretary, Prof. Kenneth Attafuah, testified before the Assurances Committee of Parliament that while the organization has successfully registered around 18.2 million Ghanaians in the national registry, nearly 560,000 cards have not yet been distributed.
“In the case of total enrollments, 18, 145, 839 Ghanaians registered onto the national identity register, and the total number of cards printed is indicated at 17.882 million, and the total issued, 17,323,416.”
“Mr Chairman, the total number of cards not issued to Ghanaians as at the date of compilation of this report, which was the 20th of August 2024 is 559,457 and cards that have been cleared and ready to be printed stands at 151,896.”
“We have a total of 110,936 as a number of Ghanaians who have attempted multiple registration, and therefore, whose cards have gone into delinquency and are being investigated,” he said.
The NIA also disclosed that Ghanaians residing overseas are now eligible to use its registration services.
The scheme for foreign registration will be piloted by the authority in Ottawa, Canada, in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration.
He added:
We chose Canada for a strategic reason. We wanted a place where we would test the robustness, the acuteness of our technical system that we’ve designed with partnership with our technical partners. We wanted a place where the majority of the people who will come before us seeking to register will be persons possessing the two fundamental of these documents, birth certificate or a passport.”
“The banking process, which will require the use of the registration via the internet. The whole registration of Ghanaians overseas is based on the use of the internet. People going online. Applying online, making the payment online, and then presenting themselves physically,”
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