The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has promised to clear in the first quarter of this year the outstanding payment owed to its Front-End Partners (FEPs) in the last two years.
The commission’s Director General, Abisoye Coker-Odusote, made the promise in a statement in Abuja by the Head of Corporate Communications, Kayode Adegoke.
The director general sympathised with the FEPs, expressing concern that they had been running their businesses for two years without payment.
She said: “The National Identity Management Commission under my leadership has conducted a revalidation exercise to review the outstanding payments, which the new management inherited with a view to offsetting the debt after going through due audit process to validate the claims made by the FEPs.
“In the process, we found out that some of the invoices submitted by the FEPs did not tally with the enrolment figures shown on the database, thus prompting the revalidation exercise to confirm the true and accurate enrolment information.
“Notwithstanding, we are wrapping up the audit process, and the activation of the FEPs will be done according to the outcome of the validation exercise.”
“We sympathise with our partners over the delay and appeal for understanding, especially as the new NIMC management is just a few months in the saddle and has been working on resolving all inherited debts.
“Unfortunately, the previous management could not clear the outstanding dues because of lack of funds, but we are working hard to source for the funds to clear the debt.
“I, therefore, use the opportunity to reiterate that the revalidation exercise was aimed at sanitising the system as well as ensuring efficient and effective enrolment processes in line with international best practices of securing citizens’ data.”
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