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PH Residents Decry Hitches In NID Rgistration
Some residents of Port
Harcourt have called on the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to extend the ongoing National Identity Card Registration to local government areas in the country.
They said last Monday that rural dwellers found it difficult to participate in the exercise due to the hurdles in the registration process.
A civil servant, Mr Richards Pepple,said it took him five days to register in Port Harcourt due to alleged poor handling of registration equipment by registration officials.
“I visited the NIMC office in Port Harcourt five consecutive days before I was able to be registered. “The delay will not encourage rural dwellers that do not have a place to spend the night in the township or funds to sustain themselves, if the exercise goes beyond a day. “Extending the registration to every local government council headquarters in the country will guarantee full participation of Nigerians in the exercise,” he said.
A businessman, Mr Benson Igwe, said the commission needed to improve on its facility and speed up the process to encourage full participation by the people.
He said that it took officials days to register applicants due to poor Internet services.“It took me more than a week to finally get captured because NIMC officials always complained about poor network which has negatively affected the exercise.
“If services are not improved by NIMC in the weeks to come, Nigerians might begin to lose interest in getting registered,” Igwe said.
A trader, Mrs Helen Brown,said she was lucky as it took her same day to complete her registration.
She, however, said that some participants who were ahead of her on the queue left because it took NIMC officials several hours to complete a single registration.
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Rivers Judiciary Denies Issuing Court Order Stopping SOLAD from Swearing in RSCSC Members
The Rivers State Judiciary has denied a media report claiming that Justice Frank Onyiri of the State High Court issued an injunction order restraining the Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd), from inaugurating the newly appointed members of the Rivers State Civil Service Commission (RSCSC).
In a statement issued by the Deputy Chief Registrar in charge of litigation at the High Court, Menenen Poromon (Esq), the state Judiciary disassociated itself from the report, describing it as malicious and fabricated.
The statement emphasized that the report was a falsehood and a misrepresentation of what transpeared in the court.
Poromon clarified that no such order was issued by Justice Onyiri or any other judge of the High Court of the state and urged the public to disregard the information, as it lacked any iota of truth.
The statement however advised the public to verify any information concerning the state Judiciary directly from the office of the Chief Registrar, High Court of the State, to avoid spreading of misinformation.