The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC says it has put in place a strategic roadmap for developing digital identification towards achieving Nigeria’s Economic Recovery Growth Plan .
NIMC stated this in a report issued by its department of Corporate Communications on Wednesday in Abuja.
It recalled that the Federal Government in 2017 issued the ERGP as its overall strategy to drive the country’s economic development.
The report indicated that the economic plans is targeted at delivering key government services to the citizens in the areas of safety net, agriculture, energy, transport, enterprises development, strengthen macro fiscal environment and developing local digital economy.
It quoted NIMC Director General Aliyu Aziz as saying that identification is central to realising the country’s ERGP.
Aziz said, the federal government plans to strengthen fiscal management, promote good governance and transparency required the nation to know ‘who is who’.
According to him, identification is a requisite for the country’s economic, social and political development.
