The Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) Aliyu Aziz, has explained why the commission’s website went down on Monday December 21.
The website which
hosts the details of the commission and relevant information on the enrollment
process for the National Identity Number (NIN) has been offline since the late
hours of Monday.
Serving an explanation
for this, Aziz told Premium Times that they were not prepared to have huge
traffic on its website.
He said;
“We have not planned
for this kind of upsurge, this will also task how much the agency has.
“Among all the data
agencies, we are the least in terms of budget, the least in terms of salary
structure and we use experts to manage our system and the private sector comes
to take them after a while and pay them better.
“I can say it got to
its elasticity level, so it needs to be expanded. You know when you are the
limelight, fraudsters will want to exasperate your efforts.
“Right now, when you
go to the gates of the centres you will see fraudsters that will offer help to
people. All these are not under our control."
He added that the
commission doesn’t have enough capacity to handle the number of persons trying
to enrol within the period.
Aziz said;
“We are aware that our
website is down, but it is not our making, but so many people coming (to the
website).”
“We have never said we
have the capacity to enrol people within a short period of time. This is
because of the standard; a centre is just for 50,000 persons, so minimum we
need 4,000 centres for 200 million people."
The current number of
enrolled persons has however increased to 43,901,010 from the previous 43
million. This means that almost a million people have enrolled for their NIN in
the last one week.
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