Minister of Interior, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has confirmed plans to hold talks with relevant stakeholders in the national identity system.
Top of the agenda will be to work out modalities on how to harmonise all the various identity systems for seamless and efficient service delivery in the country.
All the relevant stakeholders concerned, ranging from the INEC, Banks, FRSC, NPC, Immigration, NCC etc with the NIMC as a statutory body empowered by law to achieve the target in no distant future.
The Minister disclosed this on Saturday and at the 5th Identity Day commemoration held at ICC, Abuja with the theme: Identity As Catalyst for Nigeria’s Development ” – Examining the Role of Identity in Key Government Programs of Social Safety Net, Financial Inclusion, promotion of Good Governance and Transparency.
He said the harmonization and management of national identity was what the country needed now as a major means of mitigating and controlling crime as well as for national development.
The event was the first one under the current administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and since the movement of the NIMC to the Ministry of Interior.
Ojo, who described the theme as a catalyst to Nigeria’s development underscored the importance of ID management on nation building, saying that identity remains key in the everyday lives, which is why it is commemorated this Day every year.