The National Identification Authority (NIA) has emphatically said that it does not have the name Aisha Huang registered in its database.
It will be recalled that despite her deportation Aisha Huang was found to be in possession of a Ghana Card bearing the name Huang En when she was re-arrested.
A statement from the authority was thus released to explain the circumstances behind the Chinese ‘Galamsey Queen’ acquiring a Ghana card.
“On 26 February 2014, a Chinese woman named HUANG EN registered as a first-time applicant for a foreigner identity card at the Foreigner Identification Management System (FIMS) registration centre at Nhyiaeso, Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region (passport attached).
“Her biometrics was captured, and she was issued with a Non-Citizen Ghana Card. She subsequently did two more renewals on 31 August 2016 and 8 January 2018, using the same details and Chinese passport number G39575625. Throughout all these registrations, her details remained unchanged,” the release explained.
The statement continued:
“On 25 August 2022, at 10:35 am, an incident occurred at the FIMS Registration Centre in Tamale, Northern Region, involving a Chinese national who visited the centre as a first-time applicant with the following details: Forename: RUIXIA, Surname: HUANG, Date of Birth: 07-Nov-75, Passport Number: EJ5891162.
“The registration, however, went into a technical state known as ‘RejectedDueAFIS’, which meant that the biometrics of RUIXIA HUANG possibly matched that of an already existing person in the NIS database.
“The registration officer, therefore, sent a request to the technical support team for further investigations.
“After preliminary investigations, it was revealed that, based on the biometrics provided, “RUIXIA HUANG” had previously registered as EN HUANG in the FIMS record under the NIS database.
“When confronted by the registration officer with this information, she claimed to have changed her name.
“As per NIA’s normal registration process, EN HUANG was asked to provide an officially certified affidavit and a gazette as required by law to support the change of name if the details in the passport with the number EJ5891162 were to be used to update her old records,” the NIA explained.
“En Huang was then given the option of waiting to bring in the required documents before her details could be updated or renewing her old registration with her Personal ID Number CHN-010039480-J, without any change in details,” the statement explained.
The authority said she opted to renew with the old details and then go through the affidavit and gazette process, after which she would then provide the documents for the update to be done.
Her renewed Non-Citizen Ghana Card was then issued to her on 25 August 2022, bearing the details below:
Forename: EN
Surname: HUANG
Date of Birth: 07-Jul-86
Personal ID Number: CHN-010039480-J.
The authority emphasized that possession of the Non-Citizen Ghana Card does not confer or amount to having Ghanaian citizenship.
Below is the statement to that effect
