NIA entreats Ghanaians to pick up identification cards from NIA office

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Public Relations Officer of the National Identification Authority, Mrs Bertha Dzeble is entreating all Ghanaians to walk up to the office of the NIA to pick up their “Ghana cards” due to the temporal hold on the mass distribution of the cards.
“Mass distribution is on a standstill. But you can walk to our office. If we have already distributed cards in your area, you can always walk in," she indicated.
"People do so everyday to pick their cards so we encourage people who haven’t picked their cards in areas where we have distributed the cards to come to our office. We have cards ready for Kpeshie and Ga West as well. So we can give them their cards,” she concluded
Mass distribution of the national identification cards began on July 4, 2012 but has currently been on hold due to some financial constraints being faced by the NIA.
Speaking on Awake, Tuesday morning, Mrs Dzeble expressed regret over how budgetary allocation to the NIA had been put on the consolidated fund; thus stalling the work progress of the NIA in the registration, production and distribution of the “Ghana card.”
She is, therefore, advocating for a dedicated fund to complete the registration, production and distribution of the “Ghana card” which started in 2010.
“For instance, you have about 2 million Ghana cedis captured as your budget for the year in parliament and then one region’s operation is more than the 2 million Ghana cedis then it becomes very difficult getting fund,” she cited.
She also disclosed that the Government of Ghana was working in partnership with the NIA and a foreign government to secure a loan facility to complete the registration process being undertaken by the NIA.
At the moment, Mrs Dzeble revealed that over US $100 million had been spent by the NIA in putting up a building and equipping it.
Following news that some banks and institutions were rejecting the “Ghana card” in business transactions, Mrs Dzeble stressed on the need for institutions to recognize and accept the card as a legal document of the bearer as stipulated in the NIA LI 1211 which.
She noted, “The national ID card is to help identify people and also collect data on citizens for planning purposes so it’s a system that is totally different. All of these other institutions are to use our data to authenticate or to clear their databases so that we have one data across all institution"
"If all of them link up to the National Identification system, then they can take the data from us to then clean their database,” she concluded.

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