More than 15.7 million Ghanaians currently possess their Ghana cards, the Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, has told Accra-based Citi FM.
His explanations come on the back of some sections of Ghanaians who have complained of not receiving their Ghana Cards several months after registering.
Also, following an earlier denial by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia recently asserted that the card has completely complied with the conditions for an E-passport.
But, according to Prof. Attafuah’s research, as of today, about 16,535,623 Ghana Cards have been printed for the 16,969,034 people who have registered for them.
Prof. Attafuah stated that there have been around 15,702,719 cards issued, while there have been about 808,493 printed but unissued cards, and gave several explanations for this.
He disclosed that “there are people who have double-registered.That is potentially a criminal offence. Those ones are being individually investigated. There are those whose cards have gone into adjudication, not because of double registration but because they have sought to change their vital data in the custody of the authorities, such as bio-data. For such people, the system arrests their application and it joins a queue.”
He revealed further that those with system arrests will only be issued to the holders after they have been rectified.
