Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy,
says the national identification number (NIN) will become the foundation of
Nigeria’s security.
Pantami spoke during the Nigeria International Partnership
Forum in Paris, intended to attract investors and strengthen ties between
Nigeria and France in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said the federal government intends to establish the
country’s security foundation on NIN to ensure that the identity of citizens
and legal residents who log into the internet is known.
“Some of these initiatives that happen to be the foundation
of even our economy is the introduction of the national identification number.
Nigeria has joined the global community by making the use of national
identification numbers for both citizens and legal residents mandatory,” he
said.
“This is going to be
the foundation of our economy and also the foundation of our security that
whoever happens to go online, his identity will be known by the federal
government and also by our security institution.
“As in our constitution 1999 as amended section 14(2)(b),
that the primary responsibility of government is security and safety of its
citizens, it is because of this that President Muhammadu Buhari is very
passionate about that and he has been pushing that we establish the foundation
of our economy and the foundation of our security on the national
identification number so that identity of our citizens and legal residents will
be known,
“As it is today, the enrollment has been over 67 million and
most importantly we are able to capture the most important category of people
that come out to do businesses.”
He added that NIN has now become a prerequisite to enjoying
government services and so potential investors should have “peace of mind”
doing business in Nigeria.
He assured investors of the government’s efforts in making
Nigeria more secure, saying the country will soon deploy robotics to improve on
its cybersecurity.
“So it becomes a prerequisite to enjoying government
services and I believe this will bring more peace of mind to potential
investors to know that the government has been doing something significant in
that regard,” he said.
“Recently the country has also launched and commissioned a
national center for artificial intelligence and robotics that focuses more on
research and coming up with innovative solutions in the area of security and
now the center in collaboration with security institutions is in the process of
developing robots and many more that are going to be deployed to make our
country safe and sound.”
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