and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy has
blamed Nigerians for flouting COVID-19 protocols while
participating in the ongoing National Identity Numbers (NIN)
registration nationwide.
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s
Politics Today, Pantami lamented the large number of
applicants that throng the offices of the National Identity
Management Commission (NIMC).
“Citizens will go there, their names are not part of those to be
captured but they will go and stay at the gates, and if you ask
them to leave they will not. Even the security agencies plead with
them but they will not go,” he said.
“All the crowds you have been seeing in Abuja or Lagos, 90
percent or even 95 percent of them were not part of those invited
to be captured. They only go there and stay outside the gates.
“This is the problem we are having. It has nothing to do with
the commission, it is with the citizens. We need to change our
attitude.”
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Pantami said his ministry and NIMC are working on transforming
the NIN enrolment process and the onward linkage to SIM cards as
required by the Nigerian Communication Commission.
The minister explained that his ministry, NIMC and
telecommunication operators would review the entire NIN linkage to
SIM cards by network users should the Federal Government impose a
fresh lockdown amid the second wave of the coronavirus
pandemic.
“We developed an app, when you go online, you will see it. That
app, as long as you have your NIMC number, you will only download
it without visiting any office. You will be able to link up to
seven SIM numbers to only one. I have already downloaded the app,
launched the app, and already linked some of my numbers
immediately. This is part of digitalisation,” he added.