The National Identification Authority (NIA) has announced plans to begin Ghana Card registrations for children aged 6 to 14 in September.
This follows the successful registration of 18 million Ghanaians aged 15 and above, the NIA is now set to extend the process to younger citizens.
According to Executive Secretary Professor Kenneth Agyeman Attafuah, the initiative has already been piloted in the Eastern and Central regions and is now ready for a nationwide implementation.
“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” he added.
