Kwara state residents laments over slow pace of NIN registration

Date: 2021-01-05

Scores of prospective registrants for the National Identity Number (NIN) in Kwara, on Monday, expressed their frustration over the difficulty in registering at the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) offices in Ilorin.

The residents, in their numbers, who claimed to have come from various Local Government Areas (LGA) of the state, said they had been stranded at the NIMC office on Asa Dam road.

The people, including nursing mothers and the aged, decried the slow pace of registration and alleged extortion by NIMC officials.

In his reaction, Mr Paul Popoola, NIMC state coordinator, told journalists that the allegations of extortion were not true, explaining that there were fees for some services people were supposed to pay for and that was what they called extortion.

According to him, some of the services to be paid for include, Change of name, change of date of birth, reprint of slip and SMS services, among others.

He advised the registrants to visit the commission's website to get further details of the fees and services.

The coordinator also said the commission was doing everything possible to ensure adherence to COVID-19 protocols through what he called "the booking system".

"We allow people to put down their names and give them a later date to come for their registration but many of them won't leave. We don't allow anyone without complying with the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) protocols, into our premises" Popoola said.

He lamented that although the commission had offices in all the 16 LGAs of the state before now, but only six were presently functioning, adding that the commission was still registering no fewer than 250 to 300 people daily.

NAN observed that some of the registrants at the NIMC office neither observed social distancing nor were they wearing face masks.

They pleaded with the Federal Government to make the registration easier using their local governments of residence.

One of the residents, Opeyemi Soremi, decried the long wait to be able to register, saying she had been at the centre since 5:00am.

Also, a nursing mother, Mrs Rashidat Abdulbaki, said she was denied entrance into the commission's premises, advising that the centre should be decentralised, to make the process easier for prospective registrants.

Another registrant, Musibau Sanni, alleged that the commission's staff charged them some amount of money before they could attend to them, explaining that amounts ranging from N200 to N500 per person were charged for faster processing of the card.

NAN

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Dan Iya     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Saliu Oluwole     Share/Tsaragi     Jide Ashonibare     Rasaq Jimoh     Oke-opin     Kunle Suleiman     Abubakar Usman Jos     Olateju Lukman     Laolu Saraki     Kwara Consultative Forum     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Fatai Olodo     Danhawa     Dunmade     Just Event Online     UITH     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Oni Adebayo     John Dara     Kwara Restoration Project     Convocation Ceremonies     Ilorin.Info     Aminu Adisa Logun     Overland     Kwara Hotel     V.O. Abioye     Public Holiday     Ahmed Alhasssan     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Oniwa     Bello Bature     UNIFEMGA     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Tosin Saraki     Abatemi Usman     Laboratory-to-Product     Apaokagi     Amosa     Tafidan Kaiama     Maryam Nurudeen     Hassan Taiye Salam     Danladi     Bibire Ajape     Kwara State Pension Board     Ibrahim Abiodun     Ali Ahmad     Ajikobi     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Suleman Abubakar     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Harafat E. Mukadam     Kwara Poly     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Yusuf Ali     Salihu Yahaya     Babs Iwarere     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Ijakadi     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Funmilayo Zubair     Mohammed Danjuma     Kehinde Boyede     Plat Technologies Limited     Ogbondoroko     Ilorin East     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Marafan Shonga     Idi-Ape     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Reuben Paraje     Cassava Growers\' Association     Shehu Alimi Foundation    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Fatimoh Lawal     Jawondo     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Saka Saadu     Kwara United     Kwara Politics     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Toyin Saraki     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Afeyin-Olukuta     Yakub Lai Gobir     SDP     Rafiu Olasile     Zara Umar     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Bankole Omishore     Tunde Akanbi     Saliu Mustapha     ASMAU PLAZA     Tosin Saraki     Bilikis Oladimeji     TESCOM 2025     Ishaq Oloyede     Abiodun Abdulkareem     KWASSIP     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Razak Atunwa     Amasa     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Code Of Conduct     NITDA     Oro Grammar School     Igosun     Kwara State Sports Commission     Oba Of Jebba     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Bolaji Abdullahi     Femi Gbajabiamila     Woro     Dan Masanin     George Funsho Adebayo     Ibrahim Orire     Mumeen Lah     Kwara North     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Olokoba     Tunji Oyawoye     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Oju Ekun Sarumi     IQRA College     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Vasolar     Halimat Yusuf     2023 Elections     Kwara 2015     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Ojuekun     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Ayinde Oyepitan     Laolu Saraki     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Ola Falade     John Obuh     Ekweremadu     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Eleja     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     Muhammad Fawaz Abubakar     Malete     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Orire