The incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration intends to complete the National Identification system that was commenced by the erstwhile Kufour administration within its first year in office, President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo has said.
Nana Akufo-Addo, who was speaking at a meeting with the Private Enterprise Federation at the Ghana Institute of Management And Public Administration (GIMPA) said the system will help ensure the country has a solid database.
“The National Identification system is the primary identifier with linkages to the databases of institutions such as the police, the National Health Insurance Scheme, Passport office, immigration, courts, the Ghana Revenue and the Driver Licensing Authority.”
“The process of giving our country a National Identification system began president Kufuor’s time. Eight years later, nothing has been done about it and it is our intention that within the very first year of our mandate, we intend to complete the process of national identification,” the President-elect said.
The National Identification Authority (NIA) was set up by former President John Kufuor in 2003 to manage the identities of Ghanaians and foreign nationals in the country. The NIA was to merge the various national identification documents from the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Passport Office and the Drivers and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) in one database.
IMANI’s challenge Policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, has already listed, among other things, streamlining and harmonising the various identification system as one of the key issues the incoming NPP should address with urgency. This will allow Ghanaians to use one identification card for multiple systems thus removing the inconveniences, inefficiencies and the monetary costs of deploying parallel infrastructure, the think tank has indicated.
IMANI noted, as an example, that the Electoral Commission’s (EC) biometric identification system cost $400m but $250m off this figure could have been cut by harmonising the various identification systems.
Source: citifmonline.com
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Sellistish go back and read it. The statement said the data will connect to the police,passport,court etc so this means finger print will expose everyone so no wuluwala. NDC were scared to continue because of their wuluwala dubious dealings and this data will show the correct population of the country and it means immediately a baby is born she/he needs to be registered for his or her ID card what a fantastic idea. Ndc is stuck in opposition.
Nana please do this for as
It should be done and control by the police service and at the police station so that they can have the data.we need better recognize ID not just any other card like the voter ID.A card which will be difficult to have fake ones.
It shows clearly this man mean business. Its painful we wasted 8 years under the incompetent NDC administration.
Is it going to be a continues of what Kuffour was doing or we have to start the whole process again because i have my slip but they never gave me my card.
Policy direction. My is expected from you and your vice but I know you people will succeed.God is with I.
IN PLACES LIKE EGYPT,NATIONAL ID IS EVEN RECOGNIZED THAN A PASSPORT,AND THAT IS A SMART SYSTEM.CARRY ON NANA.