The National Identification Authority (NIA) yesterday, kick-started registration process for the issuance of national identification cards.
A team from the headquarters of the NIA led by its Acting Executive Secretary, Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, arrived at the ‘Jubilee House’ (presidency) to begin the process with the setting up of two stations.
Within minutes of the set-up, the stations had been swamped by anxious staff who had been waiting to register.
This was after an earlier attempt to begin the process sometime last week suffered some technical setback, leading to its postponement.
Staff, including the first ever Chairman of the NIA Governing Board, Professor Kwaku Appiah-Adu, who works at the presidency, was one of the first to have been issued with the national identity card labelled ‘ECOWAS Identity Card’ after going through the process.
The new national card comes to replace the old one which was issued during the Kufuor-led NPP administration.
Strangely, the process was stalled during the late President Mills era until the current Akufo-Addo-led NPP administration initiated it again, this time around with advanced security features.
The NIA is thus set to roll out a nationwide registration and issuance of national identity cards in the coming days.
By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent