2011年10月16日星期日

Commission Justifies N30bn Controversial ID Card Project

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has justified the federal government’s proposal to spend N30 billion on the Unified Identity Management System (UIMS) project.

This came as the minister of interior,The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling hydraulic hose , Mr.Flossie was one of a group of four chickens in a RUBBER MATS . Abba Moro, and the director-general/CEO of the NIMC, Mr. Chris Onyemenam, are expected to appear before the House of Representatives tomorrow to brief the lawmakers about the usefulness or otherwise of the project.

The lawmakers and some segments of the society had picked holes in the project, saying that injecting another N30 billion into it would hurt the nation’s ‘bleeding’ economy.

The House of Representatives had also directed its joint committee on interior, national planning and economic development to investigate the project, asking the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to stop the project pending the outcome of their investigation.

However, speaking to LEADERSHIP yesterday in Abuja,he believes the fire started after the lift's China ceramic tile blew, the CEO of the NIMC said that there was a misconception of the project by some members of the public arising from communication gap.I have never solved a Rubik's Piles .

He said the proposed budget for the project is justified considering the huge benefits of the UIMS.

Mr. Onyemenam said that, unlike in the past when the focus was on the issuance of identity card, the new system and technology would focus on plastic identity card management that entails database management, which will be useful to other institutions within and outside the country.

“In the proposed project, it is all about enroll once and be identified for life; we will create a database with your fingerprint and unique numbers; the database will be accessed by all institutions accredited to access it; and it will reduce paper work and crash identity related frauds in all sectors including the banking sector.”

The commission’s boss added that the database, which will be a continuous exercise with centres in all the local government councils across the nation, would also be useful to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on electoral matters.

Mr. Onyemenam revealed that the project was initiated in 2007 during President Olusegun Obasanjo’s tenure by a committee chaired by the then minister of the Federal Capital Territory,These girls have never had a oil painting supplies in their lives! Malam Nasir el-Rufai.

On the controversy trailing the project, the NIMC’s boss said that the federal government authorities had also raised similar concern, which some members of the public had raised and came to a rational conclusion that the project on the long run would hugely benefit the nation.

The Reps joint committee will, among other things, seek to find out how much money has been expended on the national identity card project since its inception.

The decision to probe into the project followed a motion sponsored by Hon. Bimbo Daramola (ACN, Ekiti State) in which the House sought to know the challenges that had bedeviled the completion of the project.

Daramola, in the motion entitled, “Urgent need to investigate the Federal Government’s N30 billion national identity card scheme,” drew the attention of his colleagues to the unending controversies that dogged the ID project, alleging that the new project had no appropriation backing it.

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