“Forcing Nigerians to Register for NIN Amid Coronavirus Is Barbaric” – Afenifere Blasted

Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere has described the government’s approach to registration of NIN as irresponsible.

The organisation through the National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin described the exercise as a display of total disregard for the lives of citizens to expose them to the vagaries of coronavirus without any form of protection under these terrible conditions.

This statement was issued on Friday entitled: “NIMC registration amidst COVID – 19 irresponsible.”

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Afenifere said, “It is so barbaric and archaic that Nigerians are being exposed to these dangers which shows a lack of critical thinking in leadership when bodies like Google can manage whatever information on people’s phones without having any contact with the owners.

“We challenge the government to respond to the strong allegation by the President of the Association of the Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (NIMC Unit), Lucky Asekokhai, that already the virus had been detected in three officials of the agency at its headquarters with the government doing a cover-up.”

Recall that the Federal Government had, on December 14, 2020, ordered telecommunications firms to disconnect telephones lines of subscribers who failed to link their National Identity Numbers to their subscriber identification modules.