Residents Canvass Decentralisation Of NIC Registration

Some residents in Riv
ers State have called on the National Identity Commission to extend the ongoing registration of National Identity Card to every local government area in the country.
The extension, according to them, would encourage mass registration in the state.
In an interview with The Tide, Port Harcourt-based businessman Engr. Samuel Ebere expressed worry that a lot of people might end up without the National Identity Card if the current process was not checked.
According to him the NIC office, in Port Harcourt was unable to registrar up to twenty persons per day, due to network problem.
Another businessman, Mr Pepple said he went to NIC office in Port Harcourt, for five conservative days before he was registered for the National Identity card.
The process will be burden-some for local dwellers who do not have a place to sleep or enough to sustain themselves, if the registration is not done the same day.
Mr Pepple called on the Commission to reach out to the rural dweller in their localities to enable them register for the National Identity Card.
Also speaking, Loveday Harry, a Civil Servant, said, the first National Identity Card registration in 2014 was spread across the local government areas, which made it for the rural dwellers to get registered.
However, the Public Relations Officer of the Commission was not available for comments before press time.

 
Enoch Epelle