The National Identification Authority (NIA), has indicated there have been several engagement between the Authority and former President John Mahama to address his concerns about the registration and instant issuance of the Ghana Card.

Former President Mahama has criticized the decision not to accept Voters’ ID cards as proof of citizenship for those applying for the cards.

The NIA per the law backed by parliament, only accepts passports and birth certificates as proof of  citizenship.

The Authority on Tuesday registered the two other living former presidents, John Kufuor and Jerry John Rawlings.

Despite Mr. Rawlings’ registration, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) remains opposed to the process.

The Chief Executive Officer of the NIA, Prof. Ken Attafuah in an interview said, it had asked former presidents Jerry John Rawlings and John Kufuor to register them as part of the early Ghana card registration process.

He added that the NIA will continue to register staff of other critical institutions as part of the early registration process.

“We had stakeholder engagements with President Rawlings and President Kufuor and today we’ve had the privilege of registering the two gallant men. We are in the process of registering Ghanaians and these two are very eminent Ghanaians. We are registering other Ghanaians today. We are at the premises of the audit service, judicial service, immigration, prisons fire service and several other places. We are determined to stay focused and to continue with discharging our statutory mandate.”

Although Mr. Mahama has assured that the NDC will do everything possible to have the identification scope expanded, Prof. Ken Attafuah said his outfit has made “reasonable efforts to reach out to [Mr. Mahama] in order that we will have stakeholder engagements.”

“Our contacts with Bawa Mogtari [Mr. Mahama’s aide], since last year, have been good. She has indicated that she will revert to us as soon as she is able to get a date. We are looking forward to an opportunity,” Prof. Attafuah stated.

Minority MPs have already boycotted the Ghana Card registration process over the contentions.

The Minority has said over 20 million Ghanaians will be disenfranchised because of the limitations on the proof of citizenship.