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Some Volta communities not registering for Ghana card over lack of centres

Some communities in the Volta Region are not participating in the ongoing national identification card mass registration exercise due to the absence of registration centres.

The people of Hoe, Klave, Shea and Avee are unable to participate in the exercise due to the absence of centres and the distance to the nearest registration centres.

The Assembly-Member for Hoe/Klave electoral area, Martin Apetor told Citi News that the National Identification Authority (NIA) “did not give them any information. The community rather chased the NIA officials before they told us that they did not have enough resources to cover our area but we thought they should have told us earlier.”

The situation is not different in the Shea/Avee electoral area.

Wilson Felli,  the Assembly-Member for the area, told Citi News that the community has very few vehicles plying its roads and thus make it difficult for residents to go to other towns to register for the Ghana cards.


Other communities in the Ho West district like Holuta and Aflakpe also do not have centres.

People from these areas have had to travel to Akome, a distant community, to apply for the Ghana card in the past week.

Students of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, have also called on the NIA to create a registration centre on their campus since the university has a population of over 4,000 people.

In Keta as well, places gazetted and designated to be registration centres have no staff of the Authority stationed there.

Ho municipal operational officer of the NIA, Shakespeare Numarce told Citi News, the authority will move to areas where there are no centres with a mobile registration system.

Meanwhile, a Gazzette notice sighted by Citi News, and signed by the Executive Secretary of the NIA, indicates that the exercise has been scheduled to end on the 14th of August 2019 contrary to the initially announced date of August 22, a week shorter than the announced schedule.

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