Coalition of private licensed NIN registration operators appeals to FG to pay their outstanding

By Aliyu Inuwa Mansir On Dec 22, 2022

The coalition of private licensed National Identification Number (NIN) registration operators in Kano state, has appealed to federal government to pay them their owed money.

SOLACEBASE reports that the operators made plea at a news conference held on Wednesday in Kano.

Speaking at the news conference, the representative of the coalition Alhaji Nasidi Abdullahi Dorayi said federal government under the ministry of communications and digital economy failed to pay them their money for over a year.

“Is about a year nobody received anything from the government, we have children and so many problems that needed our attention.”

“At least we have enrolled 93 million people all over the country, we urged president Buhari to ask the minister of communications and digital economy to pay us our due.”

He also requested the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari, to come to their rescue by directing the relevant authority as a matter of urgency to settle them immediately, as they are finding it difficult to continue with the exercise due to backlog of financial burden.

Also another operator, Malam Abubakar Sani said most agents of licensed operators are mostly unemployed graduates, with computer literacy, ICT experts and other professionals in information technology sectors that got training by the ICT department of NIMC and acquired enrolment equipment through bank loans, relations and friends.

“We obtained loans with the hope of getting legitimate means of livelihood and returning initial capital investment after deduction of the logistic and overhead cost of supporting staff and other expenditure within a specified period.”

“From January to August this year, 2022, the licensee has received invoices for the work done, but up till today, they have not gotten the release of payment from NIMC due to the non-release of funds by the ministry of Finance.”

“Our involvement has added greater value to the NIMC database because of the rapid promotion of enrolment figures experienced within the last 18 months of its inception, similarly, it is worthy to note that the DG of NIMC during the 4th National Identity Day Celebration held on September 16, 2022, gave an estimated NIN-Sim linkage to about 89million, part of which private licensed operators contributed immensely to the attainment of the said figure.”

In a remark, the representative of Kano state civil society forum Comrade Ibrahim Garba Maryam said the operators are entitled to their dues and it must be paid.