Written by Obinna Akukwe
The continuous and forceful herding of Nigerians like Fulani Cows and goats, to register umpteenth time for the same National Identity number NIN under different administration and under grueling conditions, without adequate infrastructure and planning, is a catastrophe and will add fire to the revolution coming to Nigeria.
Nigerians were told to register for NIN under the Shagari era, then under Buhari twice, in 1984 as Head of State and 2019 as Civilian President. Under Obasanjo regime, Nigerians were forced to register for NIN yet there is no Identity card to show for it after hundreds of millions of dollars was wasted. During Jonathan Presidency from 2010-2015, Nigerians were herded again to register, only to be told by Buhari’s Minister Pantami that the one done under Jonathan was not complete.
Thus the exercise has been a cesspools of wastage of national resources, wastage of human hours spent in endless queues for an exercise which the operators have not even prepared in advance for the magnitude of stages in the process, including the all important data protection.
I will not approach this piece as a Financial or IT Consultant, because it will expose lots of technical issues and financial mismanagement of procedures, processes and persons, rather, I will limit it to the endless cycles of endless commands to Nigerian cows to queue up and register, endless times, over a service, the banks or telecoms operators would have been seamlessly involves, either as ancillary or outsourcing service.
