Minister of State for Health, Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, has
said the ongoing National Identification Number enrolment may be suspended over
COVID-19 risks.
He also urged the National Identity Management Commission to
go back to the drawing board and re-order the enrolment process to avoid large
crowds at its centres nationwide.
Mamora, who is a member of the Presidential Task Force on
COVID-19, said the government has a duty to ensure Nigerians are protected at
all times.
He spoke on Monday while featuring on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme.
The minister said, “I don’t feel good looking at the picture
where people are gathered in multitude; it’s like a superspreader event which
we don’t like. But I’m also aware that the relevant ministry which is the
communications and digital economy is looking at this.
“My understanding is that the whole process may be suspended
so as to reorder the whole process in terms of management of the crowd because
it was never intended that it would become a rowdy process like that.”
Mamora added, “We have a duty as government to ensure that
people are protected; we also have a duty to ensure people comply within the
limit of what is good for the society at large.”
Recall that NIMC workers embarked on strike
last Thursday over exposure to COVID-19 risks, lack of personal protective
equipment and poor funding. The workers, however, called off the industrial
action some 24 hours later.
The Federal Government through the Nigerian Communication
Commission had ordered telecommunications companies to deactivate telephone
lines of subscribers who failed to link their phones to their National Identity
Number.
It also said telcos subscribers with NIN have January 19 as
deadline to link their NIN with their SIM cards while subscribers without NIN
have until February 9 to do so.
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