Consumers under the aegis of the Association of Telephone, Cable TV, and Internet Subscribers have asked that the National Identification Number, NIN enrolment be suspended due to COVID-19 risks.
The National President of the group, Sina Bilesanmi, in a statement issued on Monday, condemned the mistreatment of its members across Nigeria by the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC and demanded that the Federal Government suspend the NIN registration, as well as apologize to subscribers.
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He urged the commission to go back to the drawing board, call stakeholders meeting for solutions, and re-order the enrollment process to avoid large crowds at its centers nationwide.
Bilesanmi said, “I charge the Federal Government, the Minister for Communication, the Nigerian Communications Commission and NIMC, if they are true leaders, to come out and apologize to our members and thousands of subscribers willing to come out and do their national identity card.
“I don’t feel good looking at the picture where my members of ATCIS are gathered in multitude; it is like a super spreader event which we do not like. But I am also aware that the relevant ministry which is the communications and digital economy is looking at this.
“My understanding is that the whole process must be suspended so as to reorder the whole process in terms of management of the crowd because it was never intended that it would become a rowdy process like that.”
