Pupils in public primary and secondary schools in Ondo State must resume for the 2015/16 academic session with their residents’ card (Kaadi Igbeayo),
the government has said. Proprietors of private schools have reportedly been put on the red alert on the importance of the cards in the distribution social amenities and on development plans by the government. The state government said the
directive was to set the tone for the implementation of its data collation initiative – the smart card, (a.k.a. Kaadi Igbeayo) in schools as pupils and
students resume for a new session this week.
Information Commissioner, Kayode Akinmade, said in a statement that school’s heads have been mandated to request for the cards from the pupils
on resumption.
The statement reads: “As part of its strategy to ensure that residents comply with government’s directive to obtain the residency card, school
authorities in the state have been ordered to request students to present photocopies of their parent’s card on resumption at school.

“To this end, a meeting has been held with heads of primary and secondary schools in the state instructing them to collect photocopies of the Residency Cards of the parents of their pupils and students as they resume for a new session. “Consequently, all parents and guardians who are yet to collect their cards have been advised to do so
before the resumption of schools. “Already, a meeting has been held with members of the State Chapter of the National Association of Proprietors
of Private Schools (NAPPS) on the relevance of the cards in the task of revamping the education sector in the state. “The Commissioner said the meeting
which was followed up by a sensitisation and enlightenment programme was mainly to sensitise
them on the relevance of the card which is in fulfillment of the governor’s promise during his inauguration in 2009 when he promised efficient
service delivery to the people of the state by using accurate data of every resident of the state. “Although the smart card technology has been deployed by several governments for specific purposes, but to date, there has been no successful
multipurpose smart card like the cards. “It serves as an interface in all transactions between the government and residents; allows all residents
equal access to government’s social and welfare services, allow government to monitor the distribution of such services even in the remotest
parts of the state among others. “The card would facilitate the systematic development of data-bases
for efficient security and surveillance purposes, categorisation of citizens for employment, taxation and financial palliatives, and subsidised consumer
products like farm tools and fertilisers.”



Source: thenationonlineng.net/ondo-to-pupils-resume-with-residency-cards/

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