NASSCO, NIMC and SOCU Commences NIM Integration for Poor and Vulnerables

Iloke, Egbe - SOCU-CR 

The National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating Office Abuja in collaboration with National Identity Management Commission and State Operations Coordinating Unit(SOCU) has  Commenced NIN integration into the State Social Register in preparation for the 15 million targets beneficiaries by the Federal Government cash transfer programme. 

The Programme which is taking place Nation wide and in the 18 Local Government Areas of the State is aimed at updating the data of persons in the State Social Register to include NIN numbers for those who don't have and corrections of names and current addresses of persons to reflect their current status.

Speaking during a meeting of program Staff and the supervisory MDA which is the State Planning Commission, the State Project Coordinator SOCU-CR Mr Bassey Effiong stressed the importance of the exercise, informing all that the Federal Government is desirous of assisting the poor and vulnerable including youths and unemployed in the country using data from Social Register.

Mr. Effiong charged supervisors to ensure enumerators avoid cutting corners in the process, reiterating that any of such practices will show as the system is built to detect such. According to Mr Effiong the State data should be reliable, accurate and a true representation of the status of the beneficiary's, adding that a situation where data uploaded to National portal are rejected for lack of due diligent will not be accepted as it will affect the beneficiaries including the State.

He expressed hope that the experiences of the enumerators will fastrack reliable results to enable the State improve on the quality of her data. Adding his voice, the Head M&E/MIS Mr Nsed Akonjom informed that a team of supervisors will be dispatched to the field to supervise how the enumerators go about the update exercise with the Head of Operations Mr Godwin Ador supervising activities within the northern, central and southern senatorial districts.  

The team for each Local Government is made up of 3 enumerators, 1 NIMC Officer, 1 Graviance Redress Officer with the Local Government Community Development Officer. SOCU Staff and SPC were also deployed to each Local Government to supervise the process.