The National Identification Authority is calling on personnel who were contracted to undertake the registration exercise in the Northern region to exercise restraints in their demand for payment.

The personnel are threatening to demonstrate on January 5, 2014 if the authority does not heed their call.

Spokesperson for the group, Hudu Yakubu said the registration officers in the Northern region have been shortchanged.

“We are going to take the law into our own hands because we know that this was a national exercise and government cannot tell us that they don’t have money” he stressed.

According to him, their allowances have been in arrears since July 14, 2013.

Hudu Yakudu said because officials of NIA have turned a deaf ear to their concerns, they will hit the streets to demand their monies.

But in an interview with Joy News Monday, the Public Relations Officer of the NIA, Bertha Dzeble appealed for calm.

She said her outfit is working very hard to meet the demands of the registration officials.

Bertha Dzeble was hopeful payment will be made as soon as possible.