The Federal Government has announced plans to clear the outstanding payment owed to National Identity Number enrollment agents called Front-End Partners in the first quarter of 2024.
Director General of the National Identity Management Commission, Engineer Abisoye Coker-Odusote, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.
The development comes amid an outcry by enrollment agents over the failure of the Commission to pay the debt owed them for two years.
However, Coker-Odusote assured that the debt payment will be made within the first quarter 2024.
She sympathized with the agents who have been burdened with running their businesses for two years without payment.
“The National Identity Management Commission, under my leadership, has conducted a revalidation exercise to review the outstanding payments that 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 enrollment figures shown on the database, thus prompting the revalidation exercise to confirm the true and accurate enrollment 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 sympathize 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.
