GhanaCard: NIA has operated within its powers - Bobby Banson | 3NEWS.com

He stated on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday August 6 that the NIA was set up by an Act of Parliament with specific mandate to be carried out.

As to whether they have operated within their limit, “obviously yes because there is a law that sets them up, they have not gone beyond their mandate.”

Meanwhile, the NIA has given indication that not all who are applying for a new card or correcting errors on old ones or even seeking a replacement due to loss or damage will be able to get them sorted out by Friday, September 30.

Executive Secretary of the Authority Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah told host Alfred Ocansey on TV3‘s Ghana Tonight on Monday, August 1 that his outfit was not established to operate by deadlines but rather in perpetuity.

That will give us one full year of SIM registration.”

There is no timeline and the intendment of the law is that people will go to the NIA at their leisure and pleasure to go and get registered and those people will be those who were not captured during registration.”

Prof Attafuah, however, expressed hope that a large chunk of Ghanaians out of the over 800,000 left will get their cards for the SIM re-registration before the latest deadline.