The worry and anxiety accompanied with the Ghana Card registration has left many applicants stranded in the Ahanta West Municipality of the Western region.
Although the National Identification Authority initially planned to create 42 centres across the Municipality, only 21 saw the light, a development which has caused uneasiness to many.
It has been reported that several applicants travel from Agona Nkwanta to other remote communities to register, stating the quantity of people at the only two centres in the capital as a reason.
Host of Radio Ahanta’s morning show, Sammy Junior who has been following and paying rapt attention to the exercise reports that many people including pregnant women, lactating mothers, bankers, marketers and people from all walks of life join long queues from 1800 hours with some sleeping at the centres so they can be registered the next day.
An applicant, a mother of five, bemoaned the slow process of the registration and blamed the officials for favouring others and “looking into faces.”
According to her, if the NIA officials fail to register her on Tuesday, she will curse them.
I have locked my [five] children in the room to come and sleep here just to register for the Ghana Card, so if they don’t register me tomorrow [today], I will leave them with curses.”
In her view, the government is to blame, and should anything happen to her children, she would not hesitate to lay it on the government. In her plea, she however called on the government to do something about the exercise.
At many of the centres visited, people expressed worry over the delay in the process, inability to get the card instantly and issues of security.
The Ghana Card is a national identity card the Ghanaian government, through its National Identification Authority (NIA), is issuing to Ghanaians, both resident and non-resident to serve as a proof of identity, citizenship, and residence of holder.
Story by: Christian Yalley|Chrisdaily
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