04
Dec
The Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, has recounted his role in the arrest and conviction of his nephew, who is an official with the outfit. The nephew, George Kwame Essien, is an Assistant Technical Enrollment Officer at NIA’s Walewale Office. He was last week convicted for assisting an alleged Fulani herdsman, Amadu Seeta, to acquire a Ghana Card without following the standard operating procedures. Taken to Facebook, Professor Attafuah said he received allegations about the misconduct and dispatched a team to Walewale to investigate. Essien upon arrest pleaded with him for forgiveness and intervention, promising…