NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY (NIA) March 17, 2017 THE NEWS EDITOR, Dear Sir/Madam, PRESS RELEASE LLEGA’ iS MA\ \GAINST THE EXEC! ECRET, NIA BOI POINT PROGRAMME (Accra 17.03.17) We are informed of allegations made on Oman FM's evening Talk Show “Bolling Point” on Tuesday, March 13, 2017 to the effect that the Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Prof. Ken Fs surrounded vs members of the NDC and has si od a contract with the Margins Group. Nuld like to indicate that n os by the NIA nor by its Exe e' chieve an effective National ation System (wis) withi The Technical cones mpi _ of experts from stakeholder institutions in the Public sewn and the Office of the Vice- President, has submitted its report to the Presidency. The Government is a yet to make a decision on the way forward. The Technical Committee was constituted by the Vice-President, not the Executive Secretary of the NIA. It comprised of representatives from such agencies as Births & Death Registry, SSNIT, NHIA, DVLA, GIS, EC, NDPC, NITA and GhIPPS.We therefore wish to inform the general public that the NIA has not issued any invitation for bids neither has it received any bids. The NIA has not awarded any contract to any person or institution and is not clothed with the power to do so. The process of contracting a prospective vendor would be made public and in line with relevant laws of Ghana should the Government decide to open up the process for competitive tendering after consideration of the report of the Technical Committee. Finally, we wish to state that NIA is a public sector institution which offers equal employment opportunities to Ghanaians with different ethnic, religious and political affiliations. ISSUED BY THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT National Identificat