From Adanna Nnamani, Abuja
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), on Tuesday, said report from various organisations using their services that their system is down at any point in time, were erroneous and only targeted at discrediting the Commission.
NIMC Director Database, Mr Olufemi Fabunmi, said the Commission’s system has never been down and also assured it has never lost any data in all the years it has been operating.
Fabunmi made this known at a one- day roundtable for desk/liaison officers of Nigeria Digital ID4D held in Abuja.
According to him, “One of the basic things that happens is service failure in connectivity between the people demanding for service, like the Immigration and our office and most times, what we found out is the message displayed on the application seems to be like a conspiracy just to discredit NIMC.
“Most times the problem is from that service provider that is supposed to get to NIMC. In the train situation, we discovered that the internal network of the service provider for Nigeria Railway Corporation was not communicating and they said NIMC server is down. Meanwhile other people are using the service. For the years we have been operating we have never lost data. If for any reason we call some people to come back and register, that’s when you say we have lost data. Our back up system has covered that and our systems are designed for high availability.”
In his welcome remarks, the Nigeria Digital ID4D Project Coordinator, Mr. Musa Odole Solomon the idea of desk officers was to ensure a single point of contact with each of the ecosystem implementing partners, to ensure that our partners do not miss out on any important step in the project implementation.
He also noted that the meeting was aimed at explaining the essence of the Nigeria Digital ID4D project, its components, objectives, strategy and expected results, while discussing the roles of the desk officers in the project implementation, among other objectives.
According to Solomon, the Project seeks to address infrastructure deficit of the NIMC that poses a risk to the continuous enrollment of people, notably women, youth and persons living with disability.
“The fact that this is the very first official meeting with the desk officers, since after your nomination by your organisations makes it even more crucial. It will avail us the opportunity of understanding the project better.”