Koforidua, Sept. 29, Ghanadot/GNA – Registration
under the National Identification Authority
(NIA) which began in Koforidua Municipality
about a week ago has been smooth.
Mr Joseph Owusu, New Juaben Municipal Officer of
NIA, said “the exercise started on Monday
September 22 and no incident has been recorded.”
He was briefing Mr Kwadwo Affram-Asiedu, Eastern
Regional Minister, during a tour of some
registration centres in Koforidua.
Mr Owusu said there were 101 registration
centres in the municipality and was optimistic
everybody would be registered.
He explained that queues at the centres were the
result of collation of data from the people and
gave the assurance that everyone in the
municipality would be covered by the end of the
programme.
Mr Affram-Asiedu expressed appreciation at the
level of awareness and conduct of the exercise
in the Region.
He said the enthusiasm of the public to
participate in the exercise indicated that they
were well-informed and understood the need for a
national identification programme.
Mr Affram-Asiedu urged the officials to evolve
measures to ensure the collation of data was
curtailed to ensure the people did not stay long
in the queues.
He commended the NIA for overcoming some of the
initial problems faced during the exercise in
some Regions adding “your performance has
improved since no incident has been recorded in
the Region so far”.
Mr John Easmon, Eastern Regional Coordinator of
NIA, said the exercise in the Region had been
scheduled in two phases, and the first phase for
10 districts would end on Thursday October 2.
He said the second phase would continue in the
remaining 10 districts in the Region.
GNA
