Government will in the first quarter of 2018 start the issuance of the Digital National Registration Cards(NRCs) .
Registrar general, in the department of national registration Mathews Nyirongo, says Government has since purchased the equipment which will be used to process digital cards valued at 3.1 million Euros from German.
Mr Nyirongo, told ZANIS in an interview today that the digital NRCs, will be more secure as they will be used in several transactions including financial transactions.
He pointed out that the department will pilot the production of 500,000 NRCs and thereafter, members of the general public will be sensitized on the need to sublimit their old NRCs.
The Registrar General further emphasized that 7 million NRCs have been issued so far and appealed to the people to maintain their particulars when time for issuance of digital NRCs comes.
Meanwhile, Mr. Nyirongo has disclosed that the department has made progress in the quest to introduce dual citizenship.
He affirmed that the department is receiving application from people interested in having dual citizenship, adding that over 200 people have already applied for duo-citizenship.
Timely statement with ndola reg office up in smoke.
Ah so that’s why PF burnt the Ndola NRC office to justify another inflated capital expenditure? Surely it can’t be a confidence
I dont get it- How does one apply for duo citizenship in Zambia?
You dont.
You just apply for Zambia citizenship!, albeit since they have foreign nationalities. They are NOT applying for duo citizenship in Zambia.
This Minister is not the sharpest tool in the kitchen. Not sure he knows what he is saying..
Thanks
BB2014,2016
It should not be used as means to fundraise from poor citizens .
First, how about you register a majority of the population with the paper based NRCs?
You haven’t even accomplished one thing and you’re looking to now accomplish a 1st world standard when you couldn’t even get a 3rd world standard right..
Money wasted left right Center,
People starving left right Center,
Corruption left right Center,
New GRZ Land Cruiser V8s, left right Center,
I am no longer proud of mother Zambia.
It’s a bit like saying go and fight a war with bows and arrows first when everyone else is using guns. These so called 1st world or 3rd word terminologies are designed to stop you from thinking. If the technology exist to make it easier and secure to produce ID’s then use it. After all we made the same transition with our passports.
@FZ
No, it’s not!
It’s more like your friends are paying $287,000 for a fire truck and you are paying $1.0m when the nature of types of fire you attend to are less complex cpmpared to your friends’.
FutureZed, having digital NRCs requires a huge computer backend. As there are way more Zambians with NRCs than passports.
Shall we going into how much of the Zambian government is digitised?
I think not.
@Pimbilimano, just because you allowed incompetent people to negotiate deals for fire trucks at inflated prices does not mean you stop everything. Deal with the issue of corruption and incompetence and not the idea of having a viable fire service. @US, what huge computer backend naimwe, are you planning to go to the moon? This is how we end up with incompetent people. Why should you spend millions capturing the same information already captured on your passport or drivers license? The only cost to NRC issuance would be in the printing otherwise the system to capture and store this data is already there.
Once upon a time at a Police roadblock in Kitwe’s Bulangililo township, Police asked one passenger on an overloaded mini-bus where he was heading to. He quickly quipped; “ndeya kubulangariro”…
The Police Officer on duty quickly sensed ‘something wrong’ here and asked the passenger what his name was and what he was going to do in town. To the shock, disbelief and surprise of everyone on the bus he responded saying; “nine kilufya, ndeya kubulangariro mukubona – noko”….
I just hope then that once these new machines/technologies are installed and used to determine who’s eligible and/or who’s Zambian or not and we shud be able to determine who’s telling the truth here.
Long overdue but welcome.
The implications of introducing digital ID cards are far reaching.
The financial system is about to be revolutionized.
Hold your breath.
Good idea, we hope the process for obtaining these cards will also become civil, unlike the current system where the whole country depends on a few offices which open and close during funky hours.
I abhor the system of creating ques when getting a small document like NRC.It is time wasting and resources.Let the new process be as efficient and effective as possible.Colonial typewriting should be dispensed with.In this error and age a computerised system should do everything.Workers,also should be as proficient and professional as it is required of them.Most of the workers at NRC offices,are very arrogant and luck courtesy.Systems introduction,should go hand in hand with customer service prerequisites.
Era not error
Where can we get in touch with,i mean offices for the new digital NRC