President Muhammadu Buhari, was on Wednesday, presented with his electronic National Identity card by the Director-General of the National Identification Management Commission (NIMC), Mr Chris Onyenenam.
The brief ceremony took place in the president’s office, Presidential Villa, Abuja, after which Onyenenam told State House correspondents that the commission was now processing about 20 million data from the ongoing Bank Verification Number scheme.
He revealed that the commission had also collaborated with other agencies, including the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Pension Commission (PENCOM), the Nigeria Police, Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), Federal Road Safety Corps and Nigerian Immigration Services.
He explained that the management of the commission was at the Presidential Villa to demonstrate to the president how the national identification number could be used to confirm the identity of an individual even if the person was not present.
According to him, “that is the reason we said the identification number is a security number, because with that and if you have access to our database, you can confirm the identity of an individual.”
Onyenenam said apart from presenting the electronic card to the president, NIMC also demonstrated to him how it would be taken round.
He added: “This is one Rome that was not built in a day. Slow and steady, with the help of harmonisation and integration, that he has directed, we are getting rapidly far more than we ever did, in trying to unite our data base and I demonstrated that.
“So, basically, what we did was to activate the electronic identity and the security on it and subsequently, the payment solutions on the card and I explained to the president that there are certain applications on the card and this activation that he has done cuts across the entire activation.
“What is then left is for each agency, once they are using their own application to then customise it with their security on it and then control the use of that application.”
Onyenenam blamed the challenges of harmonised data capturing on those who were awarded contracts in the past but failed to implement it.
No comments:
Post a Comment