National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) plans to settle outstanding payments owed to its enrollment agents known as Front-End Partners (FEPs) by Q1 2024.
Gatekeepers News reports that the New Director General of the Commission, Engineer Abisoye Coker-Odusote, issued a statement on Wednesday assuring payment within the first quarter.
Coker-Odusote expressed her sympathy for FEPs burdened with running their businesses for 2 years without payment.
The Director-General of NIMC confirmed that the recent revalidation exercise for FEPs helped the Commission determine the debt owed.
“The National Identity Management Commission, under my leadership has conducted a revalidation exercise to review the outstanding payments which the new management inherited to offset the debt after going through a 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,” the DG said.
Coker-Odusote mentioned that the previous management of the Commission was unable to pay the outstanding amount because of insufficient funds. However, she stated that the current management is working hard to obtain the necessary funds to clear the debt.
“I, therefore, use the opportunity to reiterate that the revalidation exercise was aimed at sanitizing the system as well as ensuring efficient and effective enrolment processes in line with international best practices of securing citizens’ data,“ she added.
