By Kadiri Christopher
A premium online security tracking platform in Nigeria has recently drawn the attention of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the suspicious activities being perpetrated by the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, across the nation.
The online security tracking platform under the aegis of Security Situation Room, SSR, in a press statement said, "President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to look into the activities of the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, to prevent the palpable hardship being experienced by parents and wards as they register for the ongoing West Africa Examination Council, WAEC, and Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, examinations for either their children or themselves respectively".
The convener of the SSR, Douglas Ogbankwa Esq, who also signed the Press release used the medium to "call for the immediate unbinding of the activities of the NIMC, to make it accessible to the Nigerians.
"Before now, registration for the National Identity Number, NIN, takes place in multiple places in any city in Nigeria. The process was seamless and people did their NIN in minutes. Now, the leadership of the NIMC, without any credible reason, has centralized the processing of NIN only in one location in any city. This has made it very difficult for Nigerian parents and students who need the NIN to register for national examinations to now sleep in NIMC offices across the country to be able to meet up with the timing of being attended to," he said.
Ogbankwa Esq accused civil servants as the root cause of hardship in Nigeria and not the President.
He said, "sometimes, civil servants are the cause of hardship for Nigerians and everyone will blame President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This is a Clarion call for President Tinubu to come to the aid of Nigerians by decentralizing the process, as this callous centralization of the processing of NIN is a threat to the safety and security of Nigerians who sleep in Mark Shift structures to be able to meet up with the timing of being attended to.
"The Nigerian Immigration Service just commenced online application for Nigerian International Passports. Why can't the NIMC do the same?", he stressed.
He went further to alleged that "the huge corruption going on at NIMC offices all across Nigeria, where a priority slot is being sold by NIMC officials to unsuspected members of the public from the sum of ten thousand naira to about fifty thousand naira per slot.
"So, the forced centralization of NIMC activities is a deliberate plot by NIMC to extort innocent Nigerians.
"The tension generated all across the country is capable of igniting a spontaneous civil unrest that may compromise the safety and security of the state. The Federal Government must move immediately to stern this dastardly arrangement causing Nigerians pains", he said.
The SSR went further to call for the removal of the Director General of the NIMC, who initiated this callous policy which ultimately is to extort Nigerians.
"We need transformational leadership in this country and not transactional leadership.
"Bringing about hardship to obtain National Identification number is a needless charade that brings about negative perception of the government of President and Commander-In-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The President may not be aware of this development, hence this statement to bring Mr President's attention to it, which is a cry for the voiceless convening this issue," he said.
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