Some officers of the National Identification Authority (NIA) have been busted for allegedly registering people for the national identity card, Ghana Card at night.
They were reportedly busted at a private residence at Awudome, near the St Theresa Catholic Church in Accra on Tuesday night [May 7] at about 7:30 pm.
It was some residents of the area, who claimed that upon a tip-off, they pounced on the officers who were reportedly working outside of the approved working hours for the national exercise, which is being done in phases and started two weeks ago in Greater Accra.
The National Identification Authority (NIA) started the mass registration and Ghana Card issuance exercise in the Greater Accra Region from Monday, April 29, 2019, and expected to end on Saturday, July 6, 2019.
The region has been divided into two zones: Accra West and Accra East, where registration centres have been opened at specific locations.
The official working hours for the registration is 8am to 5pm.
The residents who pounced on the officers carried the registration machines to the Kaneshie Police Station to lodge a complaint.
The police together with the complainants later visited the house where the exercise was reportedly taking place as part of investigations.
The private residence from where the items were reportedly seized is near the St Theresa Catholic Church at Awudome where the NIA has set up an official registration centre, according to the complainants.
According to the complainants, they received information that, since the exercise started, the registration officers have been registering people at night.
So on Tuesday, three of them decided to "lay ambush" and spring a surprise on them and when they stormed the house where the exercise was taking place between 7 pm and 7:30 pm, they alleged they saw about 30 people waiting in a queue to be registered.
They subsequently disrupted the exercise, seized the registration equipment and reported the case at the Kaneshie Police station.
Police officers later accompanied them to the house to interview some of the people in the house, they alleged.
