THE National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), has said that it shifted the mandatory use of the National Identification Number (NIN), to enable Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, to harmonise their data base.
The Commission had last Tuesday disclosed that it shifted the date for the commencement of the mandatory use across the country from September 1, 2015 to January 9, 2016.
According to the Commission, the extension of the September date follows the recent directive by President Muhammadu Buhari, saying that the extension will enable the Commission progress further on the harmonisation database of ministries, departments and agencies of government with that of NIMC.
The Commission’s General Manager, Corporate Communications, Mr. Abdulhamid Umar, said that the shift was meant to avoid the situation similar to what was experienced when the CBN wanted to enforce the deadline date for the BVN, which eventually led to a late rush and a massive turn out of citizens and the attendant struggles they had to go through.
It explained that the shift would ensure that double enrollment was reduced to the barest minimum during the transition period when the harmonisation is being implemented.
He said that NIMC management has taken into consideration the deadline for the completion of the Bank Verification Number (BVN) exercise thus extending the time frame for the completion of the harmonisation it has begun with the CBN on the BVN programme.
Umar disclosed that with the planned harmonisation citizens will not be required to have their biometrics taken every time by government institutions in the near future noting the MDAs will invariably act as valid agents to the NIMC, collecting their own data as well as providing data required for the issuance of the NIN by the NIMC based on the minimum national standards for biometric and demographic data capture already set by the MDAs.
NIMC disclosed that it has concluded plans to provide pre-enrollment services on smartphones to ensure that citizens do their enrolment using their smart phones, adding that it would ensure that more citizens completed their demographic enrolment before they proceed to NIMC Enrollment Centres for their biometric data capture to complete their enrollment.
The Commission said that the method will help to decongest the Enrollment Centres as well as ensure that citizens enroll at their convenience to beat the deadline.
The NIN is an 11 digit number assigned to an individual upon
successful enrollment into the National Identity Database (NIDB) is what represents the unique entry of individual’s personal information in the National Identity Database.
No comments:
Post a Comment