Take NIA registration centres to the doorstep of Ghanaians like you do during voter registration – Ken Ashigbey
“the total number of Ghanaians who are yet to receive their Ghana cards is about 2.97 million, and then we have some 808,000 who had not received their cards as at the last time I collected data. That brings us to about 3.781 million Ghanaians yet to receive their cards. If we divide that by 61 days and then by 275 district offices plus the 16 Regional offices, the NIA should be doing 165 registrations daily.”
The government has been admonished to equip the National Identification Authority (NIA) with the needed resources to enable it to take registration centres to the doorstep of Ghanaians.
According to the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Dr Ing. Kenneth Ashigbey the third deadline of September 30, 2022, for SIM card re-registration exercise will be feasible if the government “takes some serious steps.”
Speaking to Accra-based Citi TV on Monday, August 1, 2022, Ing. Ashigbey said “the total number of Ghanaians who are yet to receive their Ghana cards is about 2.97 million, and then we have some 808,000 who had not received their cards as at the last time I collected data. That brings us to about 3.781 million Ghanaians yet to receive their cards. If we divide that by 61 days and then by 275 district offices plus the 16 Regional offices, the NIA should be doing 165 registrations daily.”
“This is not impossible to do,” he said.
Explaining further, Ing. Ashigbey added that “just as politicians take voter registrations to the doorstep of Ghanaians at the polling centres, I will recommend that government provides NIA with extra resources such that they are able to deploy as close as possible to the citizens.”
