Dr William Ahadzie
SOME TEMPORARY workers of the national Identification authority (NIA)
have accused the Authority of failing to pay their allowances after they registered many Ghanaians in the Upper East region about 10 months ago.
The temporary workers, who served mainly as registration officers and assistant registration officers over a minimum period of 10 days, can be found in various districts of the region.
Prior to the registration exercise, government, according to media reports, released an amount of GH?4million to the National Identification Authority to cover the cost of registering people in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions.
The National Identification Authority did not deny the report, which means that the Authority had money to adequately pay the temporary workers numbering 2,000.
Moses Alambota Nsoh, one of the affected persons, told DAILY GUIDE that the National Identification Authority promised to pay their allowances soon after the exercise but had since failed to honour its promise.
According to Mr. Nsoh, efforts to contact officials of the National Identification Authority to address their grievances had proved futile.
The only official we were asked to talk to during the exercise does not answer our calls, he indicated.
The affected officials were expected to receive between GH?120 and GH?150.
Nsoh and other affected persons have threatened to disrupt any activities of the National Identification Authority in the Upper East Region if the leadership of the NIA continues to ignore their appeals.
The NIA has no office in the region where people can go for enquiries.
Calls to an official by DAILY GUIDE were not answered.
From Ebo Bruce- Quansah, Bolgatanga ([email protected])
