The former head of Information Communications Technology (ICT) at the National Identification Authority (NIA), Osei Kwame Griffiths, has alluded that the current administration of the country’s identification authority could have done better to facilitate the sim card re-registration process.
According to him, the controversies and mass gatherings at various registration points could have been improved with appropriate plan implementations.
In an interview with Sammy Eshun on e.tv Ghana’s Fact Sheet, he shared that the postponements periods could have been handled properly to encourage Ghanaians participation in the exercise.
“I think we could have avoided that probably entirely. We obviously know that when we have these mass registrations most people will come in during the last periods. But what we could have done better was that the Ministry could have managed the postponements better. That is the first one in March but I think they managed the second one quite well,” he said.
“In the sense that in March the deadline was supposed to be 31st but they came up with the postponement on the 22nd and they lost a lot of people who would have taken advantage of the last week because most Ghanaian would do this the last minute. I mean judging from previous mass registration exercises that have been employed,” he added.
Osei Kwame Griffiths further attributed the delays with most Ghanaians receiving their cards to the flaws of the NIA.
“So yes for me, we couldn’t have in terms of the SIM card registration. However, the issues concerning the NIA and the fact that people have paid visit to them numerous occasions to get their card. I think that really intensified because they needed their card to be able to register the SIM card so for that something better could have been done in that aspect,” he stressed.
By: Jude Tackie
