Left to right: Managing Director, Nigerian Security Printing and Minting (NSPM), Mr. Abbas Umar Masanawa with Director General/CEO National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engr. Aliyu Aziz at NIMC headquarters, Abuja

The Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC) has expressed readiness to collaborate with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in its mandate to create and maintain a reliable identity database for the country.

The Managing Director, NSPM, Mr. Abbas Umar Masanawa, spoke at the NIMC headquarters in Abuja yesterday, (6^th November, 2018), during his courtesy visit to the Director General/CEO of NIMC, Engr. Aliyu Aziz.

According to Mr. Masanawa, who had the Executive Directors of the company and other management staff with him, the NSPM team was on a familiarization visit to NIMC to discuss possible ways of collaborating with the Commission on its mandate.

He explained that the NSPM is tasked with the responsibility to among other things, print all security documents in the country, thereby enabling the government to create employment, stabilizeexchange rates and strengthen the economy.

Noting that the printing and minting company partners NIMC on the printing of the National Identification Number (NIN) Slip, he added that the company would strategize with NIMC on other possible ways to partner.

“We are ready to domesticate the printing of the National e-ID Card by scaling up our equipment’s and capacity to meet up to the NIMC standard of Card production and personalization, just like we did with Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)and electoral materials.

“I believe that this partnership would allow us to be part of the success story of NIMC, as we all strive to take our organisations to the next level.” He added.

Before now, the Director General/CEO of the Commission who received the NSPM team, briefed them on the mandate of the Commission and the new federal government led initiative to enroll all Nigerians and legal residents, including those in the diaspora, children and internally displaced persons, etc.,into the National Identity Database (NIDB) and issue them the NIN using the identity ecosystem approach.

He explained that the ecosystem approach is a sustainable system scheduled to commence in January, 2019, which will allow any of the data collecting government agencies or licensed private organisations to enroll and capture data from citizens and send the data to the NIMC backend to avoid duplication of effort as well as save taxpayers monies.

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