The National Identification Authority (NIA) will start issuing Ghana Cards to persons who have finished the registration procedure but have not yet received their cards as of tomorrow.
This comes after the backlog of 541,529 cards in the NIA's database were printed in full.
This is in keeping with the pledge made to Parliament that the cards will be printed in 11 days after the blank cards were received.
The cards will be sent to the regional and district offices for the exercise, according to Dr. Abdul Ganiyu, Director of Corporate Affairs for the NIA.
All persons who have been registered for the card at various NIA registration efforts, whether through the mass registration effort or at the various district registration efforts, will be included in this.
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After the government's payment of GH100 million to CalBank PLC to open the way for clearing the backlog caused by the scarcity of blank cards due to financial issues, the NIA declared last Wednesday in a press release that it had finished producing the cards.
"NIA accomplished this achievement with a committed team of supervisors, assistant technical support officers, and assistant technical enrollment officers selected from its Headquarters, regional, and districts offices. They did so with concentration, rigour, and coherence in project management and implementation.
"From today, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, until Sunday, April 2, 2023, the printed cards, which are now being packaged, will be sent to NIA's regional and district offices worldwide for distribution to registered applicants, and the On Wednesday, April 5, 2023, cards will be available for pickup at the district or regional offices, according to the announcement.
Debt
Starting last year, the principal form of ID allowed for official bank transactions and the sim card re-registration process has been the Ghana Card.
Nevertheless, because the NIA was unable to create the cards, many Ghanaians who had registered for their Ghana Cards since July 2022 have yet to get them.
The authority attributed the predicament to its debt to partners like the Identity Management System Ltd, which led to the storage of more than 3.5 million stock cards in a bonded facility.
Professor Ken Agyemang Attafuah, the NIA's executive secretary, said that his organisation would be able to create and distribute the unpaid cards if the debts were paid in full.
"There are still 541,529 unprinted cards.
That is, they are prepared for printing but have not yet been done so, primarily due to budgetary challenges," he stated.
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