Telecoms subscribers have warned against the implementation
of digital tokens feature on the National Identity Number (NIN) without proper
consultation.
Last week, Isa Pantami, minister of communications and
digital economy, announced the ‘NIN Tokenization Solution’ feature for NIN.
The virtual NIN is a tokenised version of a person’s actual
NIN, which another party verifying the number cannot retain and use in a way
that puts the individual’s data privacy at risk.
Pantami had said that full implementation would begin in
January 2022.
But Adeolu Ogunbanjo, President, National Association of
Telecoms Subscribers (NATS), said the government must engage stakeholders and
industry players before enforcement the policy.
“Why can’t the FG engage stakeholders before coming up with
this plan? It is a serious policy, and they didn’t even engage stakeholders.
Why can’t we do that?” The Punch quoted him as saying.
“Until they discuss with all relevant stakeholders, and we
look at the merits and demerits; they can’t impose this on us.”
Ogunbanjo decried why the government is “rushing the policy
on its citizens” at this time.
“I do not know why the FG is always rushing things on its
citizens, remember when they were also going to start the SIM-NIN linkage, it
was announced in a hurry too,” he added.
“Why is this government rushing its citizens without proper enlightenment? Nobody knows what this V-NIN is all about, they are coming up with it this month, and they want to implement it next month. They must start educating the citizenry first.”
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