The National Identification Authority (NIA) has announced that it will start Ghana Card registrations for persons aged 6 to 14 in September.
The authority states that, having successfully registered 18 million Ghanaians above the age of 15, it is now ready to extend the registration process to those below 15 years.
Executive Secretary of the NIA, Prof. Kenneth Agyeman Attafuah, indicates that the initiative has already been piloted in the Eastern and Central regions and is now prepared for a nationwide rollout.
“We have started looking at Ghanaians aged between 6 and 14 years because the mass registration and the continuous registration captured Ghanaians 15 years and above.
“We are now turning our attention to those below the age of 16 and between July 20 and July 23, and we piloted the registration of this cohort of the population in the Eastern region and the Central region and based on that, we have learned some lessons and we are retooling our mechanism to begin the registration of this class of people.”