Kofi Bentil is the Vice-President of policy think tank IMANIE The National Identification Authority (NIA) faces fresh pressure to produce national ID cards hyped as Ghana’s most reliable solution to a crisis of determining nationality. The NIA’s mandate to produce the cards has come under sharp focus as the Electoral Commission (EC) hints, it expects to compile new voters register for the 2020 elections. But the proposal … Continue reading Where are the Ghana ID cards? – Bentil ‘shakes tables’

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) has not discussed matters relating to the compilation of a new voters register. In a statement Thursday, the NDC says a release by the Electoral Commission (EC) on Wednesday gives the impression the matter was discussed. “We wish to state emphatically and without any fear of contradiction, that no decision was taken on this … Continue reading NDC cries foul over ‘new voters’ register’ in EC communiqué