DNCR produces 40m national identity cards
The Directorate of National Civic Registration (DNCR), says it now has a data base with 40 million biometrically validated records of Nigerians.
Those are Nigerians of 18 years and above whose national identity cards have since been produced, the DNCR Director, Mr Wahab Jimoh told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).in Abuja.
He said that the 40 million identity cards were generated from the 52 million applications recorded during the 2003 national civic registration. Jimoh, an engineer, said that all identity card applications had been fully processed at the DNCR's production centre with 12 million of theapplications rejected.
The director explained that the rejection resulted from double registration, under age registration, incomplete filling of forms, bad or no finger printing records.
He said: ``Nobody outside has more than one record, and there is no record anywhere that corresponds with another in the data base.
``If you lose your national identity card and make a report, for example, we will reproduce it from the data base.
``It is not like the national driver's licence renewal, where you would be required to go for physical capturing again, if it has to be reproduced.''
Jimoh said that of the 40 million cards already produced, 24 million had so far been distributed in 19 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
``The cards have been distributed in Bayelsa, Yobe, Delta, Ogun, Kwara, Benue, Lagos, Ebonyi, Adamawa, Sokoto, Edo, Kebbi, Ondo, Kano, Katsina, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Plateau and Bauchi states'', he said.
``We have 17 more states to go, and they are Kogi, Osun, Oyo, Ekiti, Niger, Nasarawa, Kaduna, Anambra, Jigawa, Taraba, Enugu, Imo, Abia, Rivers, Borno, Gombe and Zamfara states,'' the director said.
Jimoh said the cards distribution commencement in the remaining states was dependent on availability of funds.