ITRealms :
The Nigeria Police in Cross River State has recovered some 4,555
stolen old national ID cards with the arrest of four suspects, insisting they
are not new ID cards, ITRealms reports.
ITRealms correspondent recalls that a store house used
by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in Calabar, Cross River
State was recently burgled, and some items, including 4,555 old National
Identity Cards carted away.
The store, ITRealms
gathered was where some materials and items inherited by NIMC from the defunct
Department of National Civic Registration (DNCR) were kept.
According to the spokesperson of the Commission, Mr. Loveday
Chika Ogbonna, who told ITRealms that the story was broken into and items,
including about 4,555 pieces of the old National ID Cards leftover after
distribution years ago were stolen.
“The DNCR and all its assets and liabilities were taken over
by NIMC in 2007,” he said.
Ogbonna pointed out that the 4,555 stolen old ID cards have
been recovered, and four suspected found in possession of the cards arrested by
the Police in Cross River state at Eyo-Edem Street, Calabar.
“The suspects have also been charged to court by the police
in line with the theft,” he said.
Ogbonna also assured the public that the recovered cards
were not part of the new National e-ID Card currently being issued by NIMC.
The new National e-ID Card, he explained to ITRealms were launched late 2014 with higher
technology, thus making it extremely difficult to be faked or used by anyone
who is not the registered owner.
Uboshe Uboshe/GEE
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