NIA starts mop-up registration Thursday

The National Identification Authority (NIA) will begin a mop-up mass registration exercise throughout the country, except in the Eastern Region, from Thursday, June 18, 2020.

The authority indicated that the mass registration in the Eastern Region, which was suspended on March 21, this year, in the wake of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, would now take place from Thursday to Saturday, June 27, this year.

Mop-up

A statement issued by the NIA and signed by the Head of Corporate Affairs, ACI Francis Palmdeti, said the mop-up registration exercise would start from the Upper East and the Upper West regions on Thursday and end on Friday, July 3, this year.

The next port of call would be the Northern, North East and Savannah regions, where the exercise would start from July 10 and end on July 24, this year.

The NIA said the regions to follow would be Central, Western and Western North, where the mop-up registration exercise would take place from July 4 to 23, this year.

The Volta and Oti regions would take their turn from July 30 to August 9, this year, after which the workstations of the NIA would be in the Ashanti Region from July 30 to August 13, this year.

The NIA mop-up registration caravan would make a stopover in the Greater Accra Region from August 16 to 29, this year.

The Bono, Bono East and Ahafo regions would take their turn from August 20 to September 4, this year.

The statement said 16.7 million Ghanaians would have been registered and issued with Ghana cards by the time the mop-up exercise was completed.