NIA cannot be blamed for not having your Ghana card – Prof Attafuah

Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), asserts that his organization is not to fault for the non-issuance of Ghana Cards to some Ghanaians.

He stated that the Authority is committed to servicing the people and has done an excellent job of registering the majority of Ghanaians on the Ghana Identity register and issuing them Ghana cards.

Hundreds of individuals flocked to the NIA to register and receive their Ghana Card, which would allow them to re-register their mobile SIM cards.

New applicants struggled in long lines to obtain the Ghana Card by the end of the day to satisfy the telecommunication companies' deadline.

Prof. Ken Attafuah, in response to the apex of the crowds that flocked to the NIA office to register or receive their Ghana Card as a result of the telcos' deadline, emphasized the need for Ghanaians to abandon their apathetic disposition.


"The vast majority of Ghanaians who are currently swarming our offices cannot fault us, as we did not fail to make our services accessible to them.

"When they registered, some chose not to go for their cards, and we still have over 651,000 cards with NIA because their owners did not go for them," he said.

Prof. Ken Attafuah was confident that the majority of these individuals are in good health, despite the fact that their NIA cards are stored at regional and district offices.

He was furious that some individuals claimed to have lost their Ghana identification cards but refused to retrieve them from the cities and localities where they registered.

He explained that the NIA has registered more than 17.4 million Ghanaians in the Ghana Identity Register and has established 276 district offices that are coterminous with regional offices in order to conduct continuous registration.

The head of the NIA was fast to add that approximately 4,000 registrants who provided false information during the registration period have had their identification cards revoked and are under investigation.


He urged the public to cooperate with the NIA by visiting their various locations across the nation to register or obtain their Ghana cards.