Call them the rejected forty-two or better still, the unidentified 42, and you will not be far from the truth.

That could be the best description of the 42 inmates of the Central Destitute Infirmary, one of Ghana's oldest elder care homes built by Ghana's First President, Dr.

Kwame Nkrumah, at Asante Bekwai in the Ashanti Region.

Even though mandatory, none of the inmates has a national identification card and no resources have been deployed to help them register to enjoy their rights to be properly identified by any civil registration exercise in the country.