High Court dismisses suit stopping NIA’s ongoing Ghana card registration

 
 
An Accra High Court has thrown out an interlocutory injunction seeking to stop the National Identification Authority (NIA) from its ongoing Ghana Card registration citing the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
This comes after two Ghanaian nationals, Mark Oliver Kevor and Emmanuel Akumatey Okrah last Thursday filed an interlocutory injunction application at the High Court restricting the National Identification Authority (NIA) from continuing with the registration exercise.
The NIA was still registering people for the Ghana Card despite governments directive to ban all public gatherings, including conferences, workshops, funerals, festivals, political rallies, sporting events and religious activities, such as services in churches and mosques have been suspended for the next four (4) weeks as part of measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
After the injunction was filled, the NIA issued a statement suspending their services “pending the final determination of the application.”
“All staff are required to report for work and render proper accounting of registration equipment, materials and consumables in their custody to the Senior Registration Officers (SROs) with immediate effect,” the statement said.
The injunction has, however, been thrown out after Court of Appeal judge Anthony Oppong who sat on the case held that the application for an injunction is “based on a grievous error and misunderstanding of the President’s social distancing directive”.
This means that the NIA can continue to register Ghanaians in the Eastern Region for the Ghana Card as planned.
 
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