The National Identity Management
Commission (NIMC) said in Abuja yesterday that it would clear outstanding
payment owed to its Front-End Partners (FEPs) for a period of two years within
the first quarter (Q1) of this year.
Its Director-General, Abisoye
Coker-Odusote who gave the assurance in a statement from the Head of Corporate
Communications, Kayode Adegoke, also expressed her sympathy with the FEPs. She
regretted that they have been burdened with running their businesses for two
years without payment.
She said: "The National
Identity Management Commission, under my leadership has conducted a
revalidation exercise to review the outstanding payments which the new
management inherited with a view to offsetting the debt after going through due
audit process to validate the claims
made by the FEPs.
"In the process, we found
out that some of the invoices submitted by the FEPs did not tally with the
enrolment figures shown on the database thus prompting the revalidation
exercise to confirm the true and accurate enrolment information.
"Notwithstanding, we are
wrapping up the audit process, and the activation of the FEPs will be done
according to the outcome of the validation exercise.
"We sympathise with our
partners over the delay and appeal for understanding especially as the new NIMC
management is just a few months in the saddle and had been working on resolving
all inherited debts.
"Unfortunately, the previous
management could not clear the outstanding dues because of lack of funds but we
are working hard to source for the funds to clear the debt.
"I therefore use the
opportunity to reiterate that the revalidation exercise was aimed at sanitizing
the system as well as ensuring efficient and effective enrolment processes in
line with international best practices of securing citizens' data."
The Commission assured concerned
Nigerians that payment would be made to the service providers as planned, while
a stakeholders’ engagement summit would take place this month.
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