The Public Affairs Director of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Bertha Dzeble, has defended the decision by the Authority to embark on another mass registration exercise in order to issue new national identity cards to Ghanaians.<\/p>\n
She explained that most institutions depend on data from the Authority, hence the need to upgrade their system to meet international standards.<\/span><\/p>\n According to her, during the first nationwide registration exercise, only four fingerprints were captured but “now, the International Civil Aviation Authority decides that all [biometric] ID cards must have all 10 fingerprints and indeed institutions that are to use our database have all gone ahead to use the 10 fingerprints already. We need to be at that standard because its our database that all others will use.\u201d<\/p>\n