The Eastern Regional Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hackman Kabore has cautioned on the National Identification Authority, NIA to stop the mass registration exercise in the Eastern region in order to protect applicants from the spread of coronavirus.
According to him, the continuation of the registration exercise by NIA is a slap in the face of the directive issued by President Akufo-Addo which suspended all public gatherings with numbers above 25.
In an interview with Accra based Starr FM, Hackman Kabore said though the NIA has issued directives to Its field officials to observe some safety protocols, many of the registration centers are overcrowded due to the inability of the officials to control applicants who trooped to the center.
The Regional Organizer said it is therefore important for the President to bring the Authority to order “the NIA must be ordered by the President to stop risking the lives of people in the Eastern region. We have observed that the centers are still crowded, no hand sanitizers and no hand washing facilities available for people who go there”
‘We the NDC have suspended parliamentary primaries in five constituencies left that were supposed to be held due to the directives by the President and our leader John Mahama. If NIA continues to register it will be a bad precedent. The very church buildings he ordered to close to the public are the same buildings opened for registration exercise what kind of logic is this,” Hackman Kabore fumed.
Also, many of the applicants of the mass registration exercise being conducted in the Eastern Region by the NIA want the exercise suspended until all safety protocols to prevent possible infection of coronavirus are adhered to.
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Though the National Identification Authority, on Monday, March 16, 2020 directed all Supervising Registration Officers (SROs) to allow only twenty-five(25) persons including its officials at a registration center in a given time, sources has disclosed that in most of the centers are not adhering to the directive.
Again, there are no hand washing facilities and sanitizers available for both applicants and registration officials to use exposing them to high risk of being infected.
