Sege, Jan. 31, GNA — The National Identification Authority (NIA) has asked applicants who registered for the Ghana Card in the Ada West District of the Greater Accra Region to pick up the cards at its office at Sege.
It said there are more than 5,000 cards ready for collection and urged the applicants in the District, who did not get their cards during the general and the mop-up exercises, to visit the office for them.
Mr Stephen Kwabena Amponsah, District Registration Officer for Ada West, called on the citizens, who could not register for the card during the general and mop-up exercises, to register at the office of the Authority.
He said the ongoing exercise was free of charge and applicants would also receive their cards timely.
Mr Amponsah said patronage for the Ghana Card collection was low and not encouraging.
The District Registration Officer said non-adherence to the stipulated and communicated time for registration and collection of cards was making the work difficult and asked the residents to comply.
“That is the directive because we cannot be doing the two things at the same time. So the mornings are purposely for card registration and the afternoons for issuing of cards,” he said.
On why some people are not getting their cards, Mr Amponsah explained that sometimes it was due to discrepancies in the information provided during the previous registration and the current exercise.
He added that, when people are unable to get their cards, the Assembly takes their data and forward it to the Head Office to be worked on hence the need for the applicants to be patient.
GNA