The National Identification Authority (NIA) is set to continue mass registration exercise in the Eastern Region, from today, June 18, to 27th June 2020.
The authority indicated that the mass registration in the Eastern Region, which was suspended on March 21, this year, in the wake of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, would now take place from Thursday to Saturday, June 27, in all the 33 Districts in the Region.
Addressing the media, Chief Executive officer of the NIA, Professor Ken Atefuah charged People in the region who could not register to go to all registration centers for the first phase and register.
He called on them to wear a nose mask before moving to the registration centers and follow procedures and orders for a smooth exercise.
On the Distribution of Card to people who registered recently, Prof.Atefuah said the period for the card issuance may continue if cards remain in their office.
He said the mop-up registration exercise would start from the Upper East and the Upper West regions 18th June and end on Friday, July 3, this year.
The next port of call would be the Northern, North East, and Savannah regions, where the exercise would start from July 10 and end on July 24, this year.
The NIA said the regions to follow would be Central, Western and Western North, where the mop-up registration exercise would take place from July 4 to 23, this year.
The Volta and Oti regions would take their turn from July 30 to August 9, this year, after which the workstations of the NIA would be in the Ashanti Region from July 30 to August 13, this year.
The NIA mop-up registration caravan would make a stopover in the Greater Accra Region from August 16 to 29, this year.
The Bono, Bono East, and Ahafo regions would take their turn from August 20 to September 4, this year.
The CEO said 16.7 million Ghanaians would have been registered and issued with Ghana cards by the time the mop-up exercise was completed.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
