{"id":27163,"date":"2014-10-10T11:49:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T11:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=27163"},"modified":"2020-05-22T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:52:09","slug":"ghana-nia-justifies-115m-loan-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/ghana-nia-justifies-115m-loan-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: NIA justifies $115m loan facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Identification Authority (NIA) has justified its decision to go for a 115 million dollar Chinese loan facility.<\/p>\n<p>The authority has come under public criticism recently for &#8216;wasting&#8217; state funds in an exercise that was meant to issue Ghanaians with national identification cards.<\/p>\n<p>Many have raised concerns about the need to contract a loan for the new ID cards.<\/p>\n<p>But Chief Executive of the NIA Dr. Josiah Cobbah says public commentary on the loan facility is misleading.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernghana.com\/news\/573066\/nia-justifies-115m-loan-facility.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.modernghana.com\/news\/573066\/nia-justifies-115m-loan-facility.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Identification Authority (NIA) has justified its decision to go for a 115 million dollar Chinese loan facility. The authority has come under public criticism recently for &#8216;wasting&#8217; state funds in an exercise that was meant to issue Ghanaians with national identification cards. Many have raised concerns about the need to contract a loan [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-ghana","type-news-articles","item-year-397","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27164,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27163\/revisions\/27164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}