The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the NIA of assisting the Election Commission in rigging the 2024 general election through data suppression.
These allegations stem from the EC’s pledge to use the Ghana Card as the sole document for voter registration in the forthcoming election.
According to the NDC, the NIA is not enabling card registration in various regions of the nation since several NIA offices have closed in some districts.
Mustapha Gbande, the NDC’s Deputy General Secretary, told Citi News in Accra on Wednesday that the NIA is charging GHS280 for premium service in certain locations, which violates the fact that the Ghana Card is a public document that should be available to all Ghanaians.
“As of now, NIA is providing premium express service in specific places, and you must spend approximately 280 before you can be issued a Ghana card.” In this economy, when many can’t even afford food.
“At this time when the issue of Ghana card has become so important how do we then say that it is a public service or document when the whole intent of the institution that is supposed to be giving that service is rather trying to make profit and commercialise it. Ghanaians cannot have access to the registration, they cannot afford it yet we are supposed to feel that it is a public document.”
Mr Gbande said the NIA was only engaged in an exercise that was geared at preventing Ghanaians from registering for the Ghana card.
“We also feel that the NIA is deliberating doing that to allow for data suppression so that if it becomes the only document for registration to acquire a voter ID card then that data have been suppressed would have affected the election of 2024,” he added.
