{"id":298218,"date":"2020-11-16T09:09:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T07:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=298218"},"modified":"2020-11-16T09:09:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T07:09:48","slug":"hundreds-turn-up-for-birth-certificates-and-id-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=298218","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds turn up for birth certificates and ID cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nathanael Heita<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HUNDREDS of young people and a big number of elderly residents of the <br \/>Ohangwena constituency of the Ohangwena Region flocked to the constituency office Thursday to apply for birth certificates and national identity cards.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The home affairs ministry has dispatched officials to constituency offices in an attempt to address the rampant problem of citizens having no national documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the number of those who showed up at the constituency office at the Onhuno village on Thursday surpassed, by far, the number expected by the officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were long queues and what was meant to be a one-day exercise had to be extended by one more day to accommodate those who were left unattended the first day.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"674\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Hundreds-turn-up-for-birth-certificates-and-ID-cards.png\" alt=\"Hundreds birth certificates ID cards young people elderly residents Ohangwena constituency\" class=\"wp-image-298220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Hundreds-turn-up-for-birth-certificates-and-ID-cards.png 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Hundreds-turn-up-for-birth-certificates-and-ID-cards.png 650w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Hundreds-turn-up-for-birth-certificates-and-ID-cards.png 674w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><figcaption>IDENTITY CRISIS: People of all ages flocked to the Ohangwena constituency office Thursday to apply for birth certificates and ID cards. Photo: Nathanael Heita.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Informant\u00e9 spoke to some of those who were queuing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Modestus Joseph said: \u201cMany people do not have national documents because the process to get an ID is complicated. It is easier to get a voter\u2019s card than to get an ID. We are however happy that officials have decided to bring the service to us, instead of us always spending a lot of money travelling to far-away home affairs offices, but at the end of the day come back empty-handed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among those who flocked to the Ohangwena constituency office were school-age youths applying for birth certificates.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were also elderly people applying for ID cards.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Citizens without national documents encounter problems when it comes to government services such as the monthly old-age grant. They did also not benefit from the recent COVID-19 grant of N$750 per person.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Constituency Councilor Johannes Hakanyome said many young people have no national documents because even their parents have no such documents, and that complicates the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, we are working very hard to help them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":298220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hundreds turn up for birth certificates and ID cards - 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