Fashola receives National I.D card

Lagos—Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, said the
attendant stress in the search for Permanent Voter’s Card, PVC, by Nigerians
would have been unnecessary if Nigeria had succeeded at his previous attempt
on national identity card.



The governor made the remarks while receiving his national identity card from
the Director General of the National Identity Management Commission, Chris
Onyenmena at the Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja.
Fashola, after receiving his Unique Identification Card, remarked that the
country is paying for his previous attempt at capturing the entire individuals in
the country in a common data base.
According to him: “I need to emphasis that this is a very important undertaken
for all Nigerians. What we have not got right in the previous exercise; we are all
paying for it now. One cannot really over-emphasise the role of common and
reliable identity management exercise will play.”
; when government whether at the state or federal level can identify all of the
people is responsible for.’’
Earlier, the Director General, Chris Onyenmena had made a distinction between a
Unique Identification and ordinary Card Issuance; saying unique identification is
biometric based