The National Identification Authority (NIA) has announced plans to begin Ghana Card registrations for persons aged 6 to 14 in September.
This phase of the registration process comes after the NIA successfully provided Ghana cards for some 18 million Ghanaians aged 15 and above.
According to the NIA, the decision to extend the Ghana Card registration to younger age groups marks a significant step in ensuring that all citizens are included in the national identification system.
Announcing the commencement of the new phase, Executive Secretary of the NIA, Prof Kenneth Agyeman Attafuah, noted that the initiative had undergone pilot testing in the Eastern and Central regions and is now prepared for a nationwide rollout.
“We have started looking at Ghanaians aged between 6 and 14 years because the mass registration and the continuous registration captured Ghanaians 15 years and above. We are now turning our attention to those below the age of 16 and between July 20 and July 23, we piloted the registration of this cohort of the population in the Eastern region and the Central region and based on that, we have learned some lessons and we are retooling our mechanism to begin the registration of this class of people.”
The Authority is therefore confident in its ability to manage the expanded registration process, having already achieved substantial coverage among those over 15 years old.
