Africa-Press – Angola. The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights guarantees, until the end of this month, the full operation, from Monday to Sunday, including holidays, of all Civil Identification Points, thus allowing citizens to collect and process the Ticket of Identity.
During this period, the Civil Identification Posts will be open at special hours, from 8 am to 5:30 pm. According to a press release from the supervisory body, which this newspaper had access to, the extraordinary measure is aimed at facilitating access to identification services, as a result of the Ministry having verified, with concern, an accumulated of 281,109 tickets awaiting the lifting of their holders.
In the note, the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights appeals to all citizens, who have processed their Identity Card, to go to the Civil Identification Post where they requested the issuance to carry out the survey.
To Jornal de Angola, the technician of the Ministry of Justice Israel Nambi, said that the same problem is also verified in the Civil Identification Posts in the diaspora, with an accumulated of 4,651 tickets to be picked up.
The main objective, he said, is to reduce the volume of ID cards that are already at the Identification Points, but have not been collected by their holders. In this, he added, the Ministry is taking advantage of the opportunity for those who cannot process the document.
Of this total, he said, Portugal leads with 2,589, followed by France with 1,080 tickets, which are waiting for their holders. With this exercise, “the aim is to reduce the flow of the population that comes daily to the Identification Points to request the Identity Card and the delay that has been observed in the issuance of the BI”.
“He explained that the Ministry services were instructed to publish, at the posts, a list with the data of the holders of the tickets that are ready and waiting only for collection. your name, it means that your Ticket is already available.
More than 12 million Angolans have the BI
By the end of October last year, more than 12 million Angolans had their Identity Card. The information, released at the time by the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, at the end of a meeting of the Council of Ministers, reported the registration of more than four million BI allocated, for the first time, more than three million BI allocated under the of the Programs for the Massification of Birth Registration and Attribution of the Identity Card and Land Registry.
“To date, there are more than 12 million citizens with Identity Cards, which means that, at the moment, we have more than nine million older citizens with Identity Cards”, Francisco Queiroz said at the time. As part of this effort, the minister of Justice and Human Rights said that there were already a total of 1088 localities free of citizens without registration. “I mean, 1088 localities in the country already have fully identified people”, he highlighted.
Diaspora ticket
Regarding the attribution of the Identity Card in the diaspora, the Minister of Justice and Human Rights revealed that from March 2020 to September 30 of this year, a total of 8,177 Identity Cards were produced. By extrapolation, he continued, it means that of the estimated 400,000 to 450,000 Angolans in the diaspora, about two thirds will already have an Identity Card. “We are at a good pace of issuing Identity Cards”, stressed Minister Francisco Queiroz.
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