{"id":25009,"date":"2017-09-27T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T09:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=25009"},"modified":"2019-11-07T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T09:53:07","slug":"nigeria-extortion-power-outage-budget-of-food-staff-apathy-the-national-identity-card-project-is-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/nigeria-extortion-power-outage-budget-of-food-staff-apathy-the-national-identity-card-project-is-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Extortion, power outage, \u2018budget of food\u2019, staff apathy\u2026 the national identity card project is failing"},"content":{"rendered":"

By ‘Fisayo Soyombo<\/span>

On August 1, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) announced<\/strong><\/a> that from January 2018, no Nigerian would be able to procure or renew an international passport without providing a National Identification Number (NIN). Coincidentally, that announcement came as \u2018FISAYO SOYOMBO<\/strong>, Editor of the ICIR, was rounding off an investigation into the national ID enrolment process. His findings were discouraging. Extortion of members of the public, blackouts at enrolment centres, non-production of ID cards, staff disgruntlement and a budget that is heavy on food and wine but low on vital needs all prove that the project hasn\u2019t fulfilled the objectives for which it was conceived 10 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWon s\u2019epe fun o ni? Oo p\u2019oo r\u2019owo mi ni<\/em>?\u201d It is the driver bellowing in raw Ibadan accent, wondering if the road user behind him is \u201ccursed\u201d and if he \u201cdidn\u2019t see his hand\u201d. In Ibadan, it is de rigueur<\/em> to drive cars without a functioning indicator, so long the driver is willing to flap his outstretched hand when turning left, and the passenger seated by him is willing to oblige in the case of a right turn.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A short, bald, old man with full Ogbomoso tribal marks, the driver decelerates on the dusty road and pulls over by a structure that, from the outside, looks like a kiosk. To the left is a wooden bench sitting three middle-aged men sipping dry gin in the scorching mid-day sun; and to the right, a door left ajar plus a ragged generator in a state of extended disuse.<\/p>\n

The driver indicates it is time his passenger disembarked but the journalist-passenger imagines there has been a mix-up: only a carpenter\u2019s shop can be around here; this \u2018kiosk\u2019 can surely not be the Ibadan North-East Local Government, Iwo Road office of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). But it is.<\/p>\n

Anti, won fe register<\/em> o, an elderly woman hollers at the NIMC official within.<\/p>\n

Read further: https:\/\/www.icirnigeria.org\/investigation-extortion-power-outage-budget-of-food-staff-apathy-the-national-identity-card-project-is-failing\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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