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General News on Friday, April 26, 2019
Source: Ghananewsagency.org
2019-04-26
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The national mbad registration of Ghanaians eligible for the Ghana Card would start on Monday, April 29th, starting with the Greater Accra region, the National Identification Authority (NIA), announced a call to eligible Ghanaians to allow them to seize this opportunity .
Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, executive secretary of the NIA, said at a press conference Thursday in Accra that the exercise would be extended to other regions after its closure in Greater Accra on Saturday, July 6th.
The exercise would allow persons aged 15 and over to be included in the national identity register and to obtain the national card.
Professor Attafuah outlined the following dates for the different regions: Volta and Oti regions from July 15th to August 1st; Northern, Savannah and Northeast Regions – August 13 to September 2; while the Upper East and Upper West regions will have their turn from September 12 to 29.
The others are Bono, Bono East and Ahafo- from 10 to 30 October; West and North West Region – November 11 to December 2; Ashanti region from December 10 to January 31, 2020.
The others are located in the eastern region – from February 12 to March 4; and Central Region – March 13 to 31.
Professor Attafuah explained that the registration days would be strictly from Monday to Saturday, from 8am to 5pm.
Holidays are excluded, however.
Eighty-five percent of Ghanaians should be captured at the end of the exercise.
Professor Attafuah, however, explained that registration would also be extended to Ghanaians in the diaspora.
Explaining the conditions of registration, the Executive Secretary stated that a candidate had to provide either an authentic birth certificate or a valid Ghanaian pbadport; or a valid citizenship certificate acquired, with a Ghana Post digital address code.
In addition, information on the applicant's national health insurance card, voter ID card, driver's license and SSNIT biometric card are entered.
Applicants without a birth certificate or pbadport are required to present a family member who has received the Ghana card to swear under oath.
Otherwise, two members of the community who are known to him, who have the card and who are practicing professionals or retired professionals, can vouch for the plaintiffs under oath.
These must be a director, a head of school, an official chief, a retired magistrate or a judge.
A doctor, a nurse, a lawyer and other personalities of society could also be a good one.
Professor Attafuah said that the registration on the electronic register of national identity would integrate and harmonize the existing identification registers in order to become the main source of identification system in Ghana.
It would also eliminate duplication of records and the waste of national resources by other government agencies to upgrade their national information systems.
Therefore, Ghanaians living at home and abroad would have a biometric verification service, while all user agencies, including the Bank of Ghana, Social Security and the National Insurance Trust, the National Health Insurance Authority and the Ghana Revenue Authority could benefit.
Professor Attafuah therefore urged all eligible Ghanaians to participate in the mbad registration exercise.
The National Identification Authority is a legal entity created under the authority of the office of the President and charged with creating a national identification system and managing a national database.
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