An official of the just-ended pilot National Identification Registration exercise in the Central Region, Mr. Bight Bedzrah, has urged the Government to ensure that people in the remaining regions in the country yet to benefit from the programme, are given intensive education.

According to Mr. Bedzrah, that was the best antidote which can help resolve the numerous challenges confronting the policy as of now.

He said the new measures initiated by the directors of the programme to send registration officers to schools, hospitals and other workplaces to register people is appreciable but requested that registration officers should be supplied with all the required logistics, including communication units to facilitate their work.

Mr. Bedzrah was commenting on the difficulties he and other registration officers who implemented the pilot project in the Effutu Municipality encountered during the exercise in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Winneba.

He praised the Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Robert K. Ghunney, for the excellent support he gave during the exercise, and appealed to the directors of the programme to ensure early settlement of the remunerations of the registration officers who worked in the area.

Mr. Bedzrah regretted that in spite of the promise given by a co-ordinator of the National Identification programme to pay other expenses incurred by the registration officers during the exercise, nothing had been paid to them.

He said the most disturbing aspect of the issue was that one, Mr. K. Dadzie who stood in for the Director of the National Identification programme, firmly agreed to honour those bills in the presence of the Municipal Chief Executive when the MCE intervened to amicably iron out a misunderstanding that erupted between the registration officers and NIP officials at the peak of the pilot exercise at Winneba.

Mr. Bedzrah expressed the hope that the issue would be settled soon to enable the registration officers involved to get their money.


Source: GNA