Former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday
collected his electronic National Identity Card from
the National Identity Management Commission
(NIMC), after spending over 10 minutes to activate
the card as well as its inbuilt applications.
Obasanjo, who in his characteristic manner of
throwing banters, noted that not many people know
that he has three identity cards.
The former president listed his international
passport, the National Identity Card and his Owu
tribal marks (six lines incisions on each side of his
cheeks) as his means of identification.
Obasanjo, who spoke at his mansion on the
Presidential Hill Top Estate, Abeokuta, Ogun State,
when the management and officials of the NIMC
brought the card to him, also asked how much of the
functions inherent in the e-card would be beneficial
to the people in his Ibogun village and at what cost to
them.
He said,” Not many people know that I have three
identity cards. The first is the international passport,
the second is National Identity card and the third is
my tribal marks. It is not funny that I’m collecting the
National Identity card at a time that I’m unemployed
and unemployable.
“What we have now is what we wanted to do in 1979
but not as complex as this one and also not as
sophisticated as this. Although we are getting the
card late, but we are getting the best that technology
can offer.
“I have my worries and I always express my feelings.
I have got special treatment but how will it be for
someone in my village to be captured?
“How much of this functionality in the card will be
useful to him and how much will be paid knowing
that poverty is still ravaging the rural dwellers. These
are issues you will have to address.”
He said the e-national identity card would not only
help the country in tackling its security challenges,
but would also assist in “intelligence gathering.”





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