NIA Introduces Premium Registration Centers

THE NATIONAL Identification Authority (NIA) says it would introduce Premium Registration Centers for the ongoing Ghana Card registration exercise.

The Premium Registration Centers would be located in some selected vantage places in the country like hotels, where people could go and register in comfort.

Significantly, people that would patronise the Premium Registration centers would have to pay before being issued the Ghana card.

The Head of Training of the NIA, Abdul Ganiru, who was speaking on radio in Kumasi, made the disclosure, noting that the Premium Registration centers would start work soon.

“Plans are far advanced by the NIA to open Premium Registration Centers for people that wants to register for the Ghana card in comfort at some selected places.

“It must be noted that those that would patronise the Premium Registration centers would have to pay some amount of money to the NIA”, he said “the Premium Registration is not for free”.

According to him, people that would patronise the Premium Registration centers would not join long queues but would be attended to swiftly and without any delay.

Abdul Ganiru expressed satisfaction about how the Ghana Card registration has gone so far in the country, announcing that about 12 million people have been issued the cards.

He however disclosed that some people are yet to register for the Ghana Card and so the NIA has decided to do a mop up registration exercise in the Ashanti region for two weeks.

“We hope that within that two weeks period people that could not register during the first phase of the exercise would get the chance to do so now”, he remarked.

Abdul Ganiru, who spoke at length about the operations of the NIA, announced that plans are also in the pipeline to register Ghanaians, who are under 15 years and issued a Ghana card.

He said some institutions in the country have requested from the NIA to register their staff for them “and we have created Institutional Registration Teams who will be registering such people soon”.