THE Government is considering extending the mobile issuance of National Registration Cards (NRCs) following complaints from three provinces after the 90-day period expired.
Home Affairs Minister Lameck Mangani said the Government was considering revisiting Northern, Southern and Central provinces where a number of people had complained that they were not issued with the NRCs during the exercise period.
In an interview in Lusaka yesterday, Mr Mangani said the Government was analysing the situation for the three provinces before a decision on whether to extend or not could be made.
“I can confirm that we have received a lot of complaints from the three provinces because a number of people feel that they were left out during the exercise. So we are revisiting the situation to find out how the matter can be resolved,” he said.
Mr Mangani said although the 100,000 target was reached in nearly all the three provinces despite challenges encountered during the exercise, the Government was committed to see how best to handle the matter.
He said it was important that the matter was analysed following the expiry of the 90-day period and that officers were supposed to start preparing for the last phase of issuance of NRCs.
The minister said the officers would continue to be vigilant during the exercise to ensure that only eligible Zambians were issued with the documents, and called on politicians to stop politicising the matter.
He said the Government would continue to engage the traditional leaders where officers had questions before NRCs were issued to any person as a way of stopping unscrupulous people from getting the documents.
Mr Mangani appealed to politicians to sensitise the public on the need to take advantage of the mobile registration exercise to obtain the NRCs instead of complaining.
[Times of Zambia]
good move.capture as many as you can!!**==%-(
Ba LT kanshi you are hosting in the USD that explains your half baked stories at times though i must say you do have good access going by what you are able to publish
NRC’s must not be given deadlines, each year,each month, each week, each day some one clocks 16 years and why not do it on a daily basis or go to secondary schools in urban areas as these are places you can get such qualifying candidates. why shud REG be a money consuming project? attach value to the REG by making sure no one gets their grade 12 certificate without a REG, or no one goes to get a job without a REG as a top priority document weather its casual,contractual or permanent job.and probably couple the aquisition of a reg to the automatic aquisition of a voters card so that you dont waste time. just put a bar code on the same reg to be used as a source of information when voting.
Give every baby born a tax file number and voting registration number.
This way when the time comes there are verifying documents to show who the person is.
These numbers stay with the person for life.
You have a number to pay taxes(Can be monitored this way for tax evasion)
You have a number for vehicle registrations and insurances.(Nobody can register a vehicle in your name and good for criminal insurance cases)
You have a number for passport registrations(Zambian verified identity number)
Zambia’s tax system would benefit from this action.
Set registrar offices even in rural areas so that Jack and Jane are registered from their birth. Our government is going to save more money than using mobile. Next you will tell us about irregularities of fund given to the officers.
This DEGREE-LESS fool! there is nothing to consider here, does it really make sense to you that you issue 165 000 NRCs IN EASTERN PROVINCE AND 45,000 IN NORTHERN PROVINCE, which statistically has a higher population, even if it is rigging in progress, the discrepancy is just too high and the reason too obviuos!!!!!!!