By Kabir Dan-Katsina, Birnin Kebbi
The Nigeria For Women Project Scale-Up (NFWP-SU) has launched a massive National Identification Number (NIN) enrolment drive targeting over 100,000 Women from 6,000 Women Affinity Groups (WAGs) across the five Local Government areas in Kebbi State.
The Local Government areas include Birnin Kebbi, Dandi, Yauri, Bunza and Zuru.
Speaking during the Launching ceremony held on Thursday at Gwadangaji Ward of Birnin Kebbi Local Government area, the State Project Coordinator, Yakubu Muhammad Yauri disclosed that the initiative was necessary considering the report from the project data base indicating over 70% of the registered project beneficiaries lacked NIN as one of the required KYC for formal banking.
He commended the Governor of Kebbi State, Nasir Idris for providing an enabling ground for the project to operate and Women in Kebbi State to benefit from the project intervention.
Also speaking, the Head of FWP- SU partners NIMC enrolment of 10,000 Women in Kebbi State the Nigerian Operations, Mustapha Rabiu Koko said the NIN registration exercise is a process whereby ward facilitators mobilize all Women Affinity Group members registered as project beneficiaries without NIN, to present themselves for the NIN enrolment being conducted ward-by-ward, until all the project beneficiaries are enrolled.
He noted that financial inclusion for the Women is a process and NIN registration is the first step, hence the collaboration with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), and the Nigeria Digital Identification for Development (D4D) project to ensure that all WAG members obtained NIN.
Also, the State NIMC Coordinator in Kebbi State, Abubakar Balarabe Alhaji emphasized that the Commission is committed to establishing a comprehensive national database, noted that NIN is now the primary gateway for all federal social safety net programmes.
