The National Identification Authority (NIA) would from December 11, 2019, to January 8, 2020, move the registration of Ghanaian residents and issuing them with Ghana cards to the Ashanti Region.
The authority intends to register an estimated figure of over 2.8 million people in the Ashanti Region.
The NIA says it will deploy a total of 15,000 registration officers to the 833 registration centres that it would set up in the region.
So far, the exercise has been conducted in 11 regions throughout Ghana out of which over two million cards have been issued.
Addressing a press conference at Ejisu on Monday [December 2, 2019], the Executive Secretary of the NIA, Prof Kenneth Agyeman Attafuah said the authority would operate from 47 district offices.
He said a number of centres would be set under the district offices and appealed to the residents to move to any of the centres closer to them to get themselves registered.
He warned staff of NIA against extorting money from the people and also asked the residents not to pay any money to any official from the authority for the purposes of being registered for the card.
He said the process was free of charge and that residents would only pay for the card if they misplaced it or during a renewal.
