NIMC Acquires Software to Enroll Physically Challenged

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) said it has acquired a software to enroll physically-challenged Nigerians into the national identity management project.

Umar Abdulhamid, NIMC’s deputy director of Corporate Communications, said the affected Nigerians would be enrolled as soon as the software was installed into the NIMC system.

``The software has features which can accommodate all forms of disability, without compromising the authenticity of the biometrics of the enrollee,’’ Abdulhamid said.

He said the current software being operated required the collection of all of the individual’s fingerprints as well as the colour of the iris of the enrollee.

The NIMC official said the new software had been created to meet the needs of people with all forms of physical challenge.

Abdulhamid said the delay in enrolling the physically-challenged by NIMC was not a deliberate attempt to discriminate against them, but to develop an authentic means of enrolling them.

`The affected Nigerians will be informed of the date for their enrolment after the system has passed the test run,’’ he said.

It was gathered that some physically-challenged Nigerians were turned back from the enrollment centres because of the inability of the system to capture them.

Meanwhile, a mobile enrollment vehicle has been deployed to the FCT NYSC orientation camp at Kubwa in Abuja to register corps members.

Abdulhamid then urged corps members to utilise the opportunity to enroll while in the camp.