September 16, (THEWILL) – The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has so far captured 89 million people in the ongoing National Identity Number (NIN) enrolment.
The Director General of NIMC, Aliyu Aziz, disclosed this at a Press Conference held Friday, in Abuja.
According to Aziz, though the commission has successfully enrolled 89 million people, the commission is taking the enrollment campaign to the nooks and crannies of the country by engaging traditional institutions
“As at today, we have enrolled 89 million people for the National Identify Number, NIN. When I became the DG, we enrolled over 7 million but you can see that we have enrolled an additional 82 million We have been growing the data as every month we enrol 2 million people.
“The 89 million are the mainstream people so there are still remaining the local people in the village, Petty traders, market people and artisans in rural areas across the country who are yet to be enrolled”, he said.
The NIMC Boss said to achieve this, “one of the strategies is that we are partnering with the traditional instructions and leaders to create awareness on NIN enrolment at the grassroots because NIN is the right of everyone.
“You know that an Identity is a tool for empowerment and greater use of digital Identity can help bring development and coordinating for better delivery of government services.”
He also disclosed that modifications such as change of name, change of date of birth and others that are within the law should not take more than 48 hours to effect, adding that the modifications that take more than 48 hours are those that are not within the law.
“With our system modification of names and dates of birth within the law (5yrs) shouldn’t take more than 48 hours. Those that take longer are because we have to consult with other relevant stakeholders before we affect the modification.
“Though we have some that you can see clearly that it is an error from entry, like in a case where the child is three years younger than the mother. So we advise that anyone who is not literate that is coming for enrollment should come with one literate person”, the NIMC Boss stressed.
Aziz spoke on the commission’s enrollment programme, “There are three pillars based on the Identity programme, effective design to ensure inclusion creating a robust and secured and accuracy with our partnering agencies capturing data and instructional framework. That was the reason we launched the tokenisation system to ensure the privacy of data.
“We have over 15,000 enrollment centres and over 29,000 equipment all over the country.”
