6
millions Nigerians have registered for National ID – NIMC
Mr Chris Onyemenam, the
Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on
Wednesday said six million Nigerians had been registered on the Electronic
National Identity Card (e-ID) scheme.
He made the disclosure at the
National Assembly when he presented the Speaker, House of Representatives,
Animu Tambuwal’s e-ID to him. He disclosed that there were 404 NIMC enrolment
centres across the 774 local government areas in the country for registration
on the scheme., NAN reports.
“We followed a process that is intended to
create awareness between what we have done before and what we are doing now.
“And, that will also make sure that we have sustained what we are doing on a
long time basis.
“So there is a distinction between identity
card management, when viewed from a process that enables you to identify the
individual and to update the records of individual and the use to which you put
that infrastructure,” he said. He said that the identity card registration was
“not time bound”.
According to Onyemenam, if you wake up today
and go to any of our 404 enrolment centres, there will be somebody there to
enroll you. “There is a distinction between the process of enrolling legal
resident, where we confirm that the person is legally resident and the process
for enrolling a Nigerian who is a citizen.
“We require from you, reader document in this
case, while the citizen enrolment can include even an attestation,” he said.
The director-general, therefore, said that an Immigration Service official was
attached to every enrolment centre to certify legal resident Nigerians when
they appear for registration.
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