Government hands over vehicles for NIA operations ahead of April registration

The Vice President will today, March 27, 2018 hand over a fleet of cars to the National Identification Authority(NIA) to help them undertake the national registration and issuance of the national ID card, known as the Ghana Card.

This comes after the Vice President announced that government has set measures in place to ensure a successful roll-out of the identification cards system shortly.

The National Identification Authority (NIA) is billed to start the issuance of the new National Identification Card in April this year.

Speaking at the Ghana-Norway Business Forum in Accra on Monday, 19 March 2018, Dr Bawumia said “a lot of work has been done and all things being equal, we expect a rollout of Ghana’s National ID system next month [April].

“This means we are going to provide unique identification to everybody in Ghana, whether you are a foreigner or a citizen. We’ll have unique ID numbers and this will automatically transform into your tax identification number so when you don’t file your taxes, we know.” he noted.

The Ghana Card, is meant to be the primary ID card that citizens will use to access all services in the country, including even traveling within the West African sub-region.

It’ll be the only valid ID for application for a bank account, passport, telephone number, property acquisition, drivers license among others.