General News of Wednesday, 8 January 2020Source: citinewsroom.comFour NIA officials arrested over malpractices in Ashanti RegionFile photoFour officials of the National Identification Authority (NIA) and another person have been arrested by the Ghana Police Service for engaging in a number of malpractices in the mass registration exercise in the Ashanti Region. “Management has further determined the said conduct also constitutes an egregious violation of applicable internal rules and regulations governing the conduct of NIA registration officials. The exercise currently ongoing in the Ashanti Region has so far registered one million (1,015,259) people in the region at the end of 2019. In the Ashanti Region, 761,263 cards have been printed while 552,796 cards have been issued to registrants. Meanwhile, the NIA has extended the mass registration exercise throughout the Ashanti Region from January 10 to 16.

Source: GhanaWeb January 08, 2020 06:33 UTC