The National Identification Authority, NIA, has shot down allegations that it has been criminalized by the NPP and used as machinery to enhance the party’s chances in the upcoming elections.
A statement by the Director of Elections and IT at the NDC, Dr Omane Boamah alleged that the NIA “wants to give the people driven away from the Pusiga registration centre Ghana cards in order for them to register within these final 7 days and vote on December 07.”
However, the NIA said it is not aware the NDC drove people away from registering at Pusiga during the limited voter registration.
Dr Omane Boamah said in his statement that “NIA headed by Dr. Bawumia’s bosom friend Ken Attafuah has strangely chosen this voter registration period to embark on a special pilot program to issue Ghana Cards to Ghanaians living along the borders of Ghana and Burkina Faso in Pusiga”
He added that the “politically motivated enterprise masked as a collaboration with IOM”
In response, the NIA said the allegations by the NDC Director of Elections are mere insinuations and do not represent the reality. It said the actions of the NIA are in good faith and of national interest.
“The NIA flatly denies each and every one of the allegations specified above, as well as the insinuation that the NIA’s decisions and actions spring from a malevolent seedbed. Specifically, the NIA wishes to assure the public that, contrary to Dr. Omane Boamah’s wild assertions, the NIA has acted in utmost good faith, in the national interest and in accordance with the law,” the NIA said.
According to the NIA, the registration in “Pusiga District was first mooted by the International Organization for Migration (IMO) on 30th August 2023 following a Stakeholder Consultation on border security along the Ghana-Burkina Faso border conducted by the Ministry of the Interior at the Fiesta Royal Hotel in Accra.”
It added that the “Ghana Card registration exercise in the Pusiga District is lawful, proper, necessary and wholly wholesome.”
Read the full response by the NIA.
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