The Akwa Ibom State Office of the Nigerian National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has distance itself from the activities of some crooks asking applicants to pay certain amount of money to facilitate their enrollment for the National Identification Number (NIN).
In a statement issued by the state coordinator of the commission, Mr. Ekpo Samuel Tom and made available to newsmen in Uyo, the commission explained that enrollment into the National Identity Database is absolutely free and that no citizen or legal resident is expected to pay for it.
Tom said that some unscrupulous business centres in collaboration with certain miscreants posing as NIMC agents use banner bearing the NIMC or presidential logos at the business centres and charge eligible applicants for pre-enrollment thereby making applicants believe that they are actually paying for the National Identification Number.
NIMC he said wish to made it categorically clear that anyone who visits a cyber café or any business centre and charged for pre-enrollment is paying for the use of the internet facilities which is service rendered by the business centre and not for the NIN or the National e-ID Card.
He however noted that NIMC is not oblivious of the fact that persons who visit business centres and cyber cafes for online pre-enrolment must pay for the use of internet services.
which is the cost of the services rendered by the business owners but frowned at the report that such payment was for either NIN or the National e-ID Card or that the money so charged goes to NIMC.
‘’ NIMC has no business charging anybody for enrolment into the National Identity Data base. Enrolment is completely free and anyone who is asked to pay by any NMIC official must report such a person to the nearest security police station’’ he stated.
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