Ghana Card: NIA registers over 16.9 million Ghanaians
Colonel Peter Kwame Ghansah (Rtd), the Head of Operations at the National Identification Authority (NIA), has uncovered that 16,936,934 Ghanaians has been enlisted by the Authority as of July 12, including pilot, mass and constant enrollment works out.
He made sense of that the quantity of Ghana Cards printed is 16,743,832 while the quantity of uncollected Ghana cards is 895,140, adding that the quantity of cards supplanted is 159,439.
Colonel Ghansah reported this when authorities of the National Identification Authority showed up in the House to brief Members of Parliament (MPs) about the tasks and exercises of the NIA.
Colonel Ghansah additionally made sense of that the quantity of people whose records were refreshed is 34,623 while the quantity of outsiders enrolled and the quantity of non-residents who reestablished their cards from January to June 2022 is 12,379 and 15,552 is individually.
He said the complete number of outsiders enlisted from 2013 to date is 156,339 and that from the figures it truly intends that on typical 17,371 outsiders are enrolled yearly.
Colonel Ghansah further showed that somewhere in the range of 2018 and 2022 the NIA executed MOUs for conveyance of information harmonization and mix administrations with establishments including the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Students Loan Trust Fund (SLTF), Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), the Bank of Ghana (BOG), Artel-Tigo, MTN, Vodafone and Glow.
He made sense of that after the execution of the MOU and the information harmonization process, the NIA had moved information to foundations including the GRA, SSNIT, NHIA and MTN, among others.
He said for the GRA the NIA has moved a sum of 15, 797,860 information, SSNIT-15,412,055, NHIA-15,370,256, Artel-Tigo-1,766,446, MTN-11,524,584, Vodafone-10, 340,802 and Glo-142,215.
Colonel Ghansah additionally expressed that the NIA was drawing in the Electoral Commission, Birth and Death Registry, Ghana Immigration Service, Passport Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration for comparable purposes.
He made sense of that Ghanaians who had enrolled yet had not yet accepted their Ghana card may as yet be explained by the Banks and Telcom organizations in the event that check gadgets determined by the NIA were accessible.
Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu in his remarks raised worry that the Ghana card which is a public decent is progressively not open to a large number of Ghanaians.
He approached the NIA to give a local and locale breakdown as far as the quantity of individuals enlisted as well as the cards gave by the Authority.
"Numerous Ghanaians are attempting to approach the Ghana card," he said.
Larger part Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, in his remark, emphasized the require the NIA to give the provincial and locale breakdown regarding the figures to the House.
"I buy into the possibility that we ought to have the territorial and area breakdown since Ghana is separated into locales, so that when we have the full supplements of the recognizable proof cards, it ought to try and assist us with knowing area by district and region by region the ethnic breakdown of the country" he added.
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