The National Identification Authority (NIA) has postponed the intended issuance of Ghana Cards to applicants today Monday, June 8, 2020, to Wednesday, June 10, 2020, over non-readiness of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to its field officers.
“The National Identification Authority (NIA) announces for the information of the Public that it’s Ghana Card Issuance Exercise scheduled to begin today, Monday, June 8, 2020, in all 16 regions concurrently has been rescheduled to Wednesday 10th June 2020 to enable the NIA to complete the distribution of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Registration Center” A statement issued Monday by the NIA said.
The NIA announced last week it was issuing 3,875,441 printed cards to Ghana Card applicants in 5,635 registration centers in all 16 Regions of Ghana concurrently beginning today to Tuesday 16th June 2020.
According to the Authority, the nationwide card issuance blitz will enable 11,062,850 Ghanaians to possess Ghana Cards in good time to be used for vouching for their relatives or other Ghanaians who wish to register during the nationwide Mop-Up registration exercise commencing on 18th June 2020 and ending in mid-September 2020.
A statement issued Friday, June 6, 2020, by the Head of Corporate Affairs, ACI Francis Palmdeti explained that the exercises “will also enable persons in possession of the Ghana Card to use it for other mandatory purposes stated in the National Identity Register Regulation, 2012 (LI 2111), including registering as a voter and vouching for others as Ghanaians”
To reduce the risk of Coronavirus infection,” the NIA says it “will provide adequate PPE’s for all NIA field officials for use during the exercise. All Registration Centres will be equipped with the requisite resources to ensure the effective observance of all prescribed health and safety protocols. Also, security personnel will be deployed at each Registration Centre to ensure that crowd control measures such as physical distancing and appointment system are strictly observed”.
Also, “applicants attending at NIA card collection centers MUST wear a mask and wash their hands before they begin the card collection process”.
The Electoral Commission of Ghana has made the Ghana Card a primary breeder material in a Constitutional Instrument before Parliament for proof of nationality in its intended compilation of a new biometric Voters’ Register.
This has been stiffly opposed by some civil society organizations and opposition political parties led by the largest opposition party in Ghana the National Democratic Congress given that less than half of the expected 17 million eligible Voters’ have the card.[10:22 PM, 6/7/2020] Kwadwo Ansah 1: Four(4) new Covid-19 infections increase the Koforidua case count to 28.
Four new confirmed cases of Covid-19 have increased the case count in New Juaben South Municipality (Koforidua) from 24 to 28 in less than 48 hours.
Out of the total number, only one (1) has recovered with one death been a Senior Police Officer who died May 29, 2020.
The four new confirmed cases in New Juaben South Municipality-Koforidua have increased the Eastern Regional case count from to 166 with about 100 recoveries as of June 6, 2020.
Fifteen (15) out of thirty-three (33) Municipalities/Districts in the Eastern Region have recorded confirmed cases of Covid-19.
The Districts and Municipalities are Lower Manya Krobo, Asuogyaman, Akauapem North, New Juaben South, Denkyembuor, Nsawam – Adoagyiri, Fanteakwa North, Kwahu West, Birim Central, Achiase, Suhum, West Akyem, Birim North, Upper Manya Krobo, and Akauapem North.
Ghana’s Covid-19 case count has increased by 176 to 9,638, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said in the latest update Sunday.
On its Covid-19 website, the Service indicated that 44 people so far have lost their lives to the novel virus in the country whereas 3,636 have recovered from the disease.Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
