The National Identification Authority (NIA) has revealed that more than 110,000 Ghana Cards have been withheld due to double registration issues.
While the authority has successfully issued over 18 million cards to Ghanaians, approximately 150,000 cards are still pending printing.
Appearing before the Assurance Committee of Parliament, Prof. Kenneth Agyeman Attafuah, Executive Secretary of the NIA, announced that investigations into the multiple registration cases have commenced.
“The total number of cards not issued to Ghanaians as of the date of compilation of this report which was August 20, 2024, is 559, 457 and cards cleared and ready to be printed stands at 150,896.
“We have a total of 110,936, as the number of Ghanaians who have attempted multiple registrations whose cards have gone into delinquency and is being investigated,” he disclosed.
