The National Identification Authority has outdoored a new national identification card, with the promise to launch its massive registration exercise.
At a news briefing in Accra Wednesday, NIA Executive Director, Professor Ken Agyemang Attefuah said the Authority is prepared to embark the exercise projected to formalise Ghana’s economy.
“The National Identification Authority is ready to provide Ghanaians with a modern robust national identification system and a smart ID card that will meet the modern aspirations of the people of Ghana and carry us into the future,” he said.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected to launch the nationwide registration exercise on September 15.
The launch will officially pave the way for the rolling out of the new identification process.
The NIA has explained the exercise will start with the security agencies, schools, banks and the population in the Greater Accra Region.
The next stop of the registration van will be areas in the Central, Western and Brong Ahafo Regions. The rest of the regions will later follow, the NIA has said.
Ghanaians resident in other countries have not been left out of the registration process. An opportunity will be given to them to register for the card at a fee wherever they are.
The new identification system was an outcome of a private public partnership with the Margins Group, tasked to make the new ID cards.
Margins Group CEO, Moses Baiden described the new card as the most secured Identification card with about 14 international security features.
It also has a multi-purpose function, he told the media.
Another new feature of the card is the passport and ECOWAS logos on it which allow it to be used in place of a passport across ECOWAS member countries.
Mr Baiden explained one of the functions of the new card is that apart from it being a national identification card, it will also be linked to one’s bank account to enhance modern payment systems.
The new ID card is expected to have a lifespan of 10 years after which it will be renewable at a fee to be determined by the Authority.
Source: myjoyonline
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what of us in diaspora. how can we also be registered
thank you nana
May God continue to bless this government for within a short period using the tax payers money developing basic necessities to improve the economy. Jealousy people go cry.
Those of you saying it should be made indefinate, have you ask why passport do expire? the ID should always match your current state of look and details. Stop exposing your ignorance!!!!!!
Ghanaians de talk papa, Look, in abroad to get somebody address on your document is not easy,If you give your addres to some one and there is a problem out there you are finish, your families are in Gremany,U.S.A,Europe etc ask them. NO WAY,
You guys should know people change in every 7 years and if u are below 18 you change every 5 years so for the ID to be authentic and your true self it gotta to change the least every 10 years so it reflect you at your current stage of your life
What is the relationship of this card to the Voter Id Card, NHIA Card, ATM cards, etc.?
I thought Prof. Attefuah said the contract has not been awarded yet. So to Ken Agyapong's question at what cost are you implementing this? Because from all indications the contract has been awarded. Over to you Prof.
So how are they going to distinguish Ghanaians from foreigners? Especially our brothers from Nigeria who have flooded our country and are even carrying Ghanaian passports? Is the NIA going to use fluency in a local dialect or some form of community identification? Do we have a law that makes the falsification of nationality criminal? The NIA has to think through this very well otherwise we will end up shooting ourselves in the foot.
Nigerians are here be watchful. NIGERIANS ARE HERE BE WATCHFUL. Nigerians are here be watchful. NIGERIANS ARE HERE BE WATCHFUL. Nigerians are here be watchful. NIGERIANS ARE HERE BE WATCHFUL. They are using our passport be watchful. THEY ARE USING OUR PASSPORT BE WATCHFUL. They are using our passport be watchful.