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Nigeria: New ID Card to Cost Over N30 Billion
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
3 July 2008
Posted to the web 3 July 2008
Idris Ahmed
The new national identity card will cost between N23 billion to N30 billion and may go up when the financial implications involve in obtaining new infrastructure for the project is summed, the Director General and Chief Executive of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said.
This amount will be borne by the private sector as the project is going to be a Public Private Partnership (PPP) venture with no cost to the government, Chris Onyemenam said at a press conference Tuesday in Abuja.
He said so far, an estimated 37.5 million Nigerians have been issued with national identity cards "but in terms of personal information provided by Nigerians, we have 53 million people registered but not all of them are corrected."
He said: "To finance the new identification project, as at 2007 when this idea was put together, preliminary cost was put at N23 billion to N30 billion, but this did not take into consideration the new infrastructure and when this is done, the figure will change."
To maintain a new national identity management infrastructure, a conference is schedule to hold in September 21-23 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel to discuss among other things how to upgrade available infrastructure to support digital identity (e-ID) assurance systems.
"One of such upgrading target is the development of permanent Identity Registration Centres (IRCs) across the country which would ensure that enrolments into the National Identity Database (NID) takes place on daily basis, all year round, just like any other activity.
"Another infrastructure upgrade has to do with the creation of a secure National Identity Database with the necessary authentication and verification infrastructure and full business continuity support, so that it would be easy for anyone from anywhere within Nigeria to prove or assert his/her identity", Chris said.
Achieving the commission's objectives, Chris said they are focusing on four strategic point code named 4Es.
He said: "The Commission's strategy is focus on expanding, extending and enhancing identity infrastructure and where necessary exiting obsolete technology and processes in order to establish a reliable, secure and scaleable identity Management System infrastructure that utilizes advanced biometric technologies to uniquely identify every individual in the country."
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On the trapped identity card formerly handled by the Department of National Civic Registration (DNCR) in the ministry of Interior, Chris said an adhoc arrangement has been instituted to clear them "which be done before the end of this month."
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