Staff of the National Identity Management Commission in Nigeria (NIMC) will soon get an improved salary says the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami.
The Minister who disclosed this in Abuja, when the Board and Management of NIMC paid him a courtesy call said all obstacles to the new improved salary for staff National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has been cleared as the staff will soon enjoy improved salary.
The Minister said “We are working on the new salary scale approved by the Salaries and Wages Commission. As we made efforts to ensure an improved budget for 2021.
“I have furnished the President with all the challenges faced by NIMC because the President said we must get NIN right as we cannot continue to estimate our population and for national planning.
We will make sure the agency delivers on its mandate. We need to do more for NIMC” he said.
Relevancy of the commission
Speaking earlier, Acting Chairman NIMC Governing Board, Bello Gwandu, who led the team, applauded the Minister for his innovations and also informed him of the challenges faced by the commission.
“We are here to convey to you our unreserved appreciation of what you have been doing since the transfer of the supervision of the activities of NIMC to the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy.”
He emphasized that “We are here for a number of reasons, informed and buoyed by the oversight powers of your Ministry over NIMC.
“The welfare of the Commission’s staff has been brought to the front-burner and attention of the Federal Government owing to your relentless drive to see a paradigm shift of their general working conditions. It shows you have the interest of our NIMC workforce at heart, and you understand and appreciate the magnitude of the Commission’s mandate to the Nigerian people.
“The ongoing NIN-SIM linkage exercise is yet another project that speaks volumes of your unflinching resolve to sanitize and harmonize the silos of databases in the country. Let me say again for the purpose of emphasis, that, as a Commission, we never exuded such overwhelming relevance and have not been this connected to the Nigerian people like we have since you took over as our supervisory Minister.” He added.
According to him some of the challenges currently facing the commission include:
Actualization and implementation of an enhanced salary structure for staff of the Commission commensurate to government agencies in the same IT sector; and Provision and release of funds to address the huge infrastructural requirements of the Commission.
In his words, “we have come to enlist your support by prevailing on your good office to help resolve and find solution to our challenges. We do this because of our firm belief in you as a technocrat with a very good grasp of the importance of digital identification in our national development and how our work at NIMC will catalyse and serve as the bedrock of the national digital economy we are building. If you do this for us, Honourable Minister, posterity will remember you and Nigerians will celebrate you” he said.
Emmanuel Ukoh
