He said after the important details are taken, applicants will be issued with an application form to fill on which their details will be taken for scrutiny. National IDs were expected to be issued on April 26 this year, as a pilot project starting with security forces and civil servants living in Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and residents of Kilombero, Morogoro Region, but challenges related to forged school certificates and other shortcomings forced the authority to postpone the issuance date. According to him, elements of forgery of school certificates, and other documentations among other factors, have made the work more than difficult. He said adding that the authority has failed to beat their target because of these shortfalls. He said the verification of the documentations detailing the records of applicants will be checked and approved by the Immigration department to verify the nationality of a person, while RITA will be concerned with the verification of somebody’s age, after these verifications are cleared, the ID will b e issued free of charge. Describing the importance of the national IDs, he said that, these are many and noted the most important one is to get to know one’s nationality and the physical location including places of domicile. All these would be included and put in a special database for reference.Realising the importance of the National IDs, the Government of United Republic of Tanzania established the National Identification Authority (NIDA) on 1st July, 2008 in order to let Tanzanians known among the five East African countries and even to overseas countries. NIDA’s Executive Director, Dickson Maimu was recently quoted in Dar es Salaam as saying that, the process of engaging the company that would produce the IDs was in the final stages. The $176 million (about Sh200 billion) project has been delayed for decades now with documents, meetings and tendering moving from one office to the other.
Monday, June 4, 2012
NIDA to start individual registration for national IDs in Dar suburbs
NATIONAL Identification Authority (NIDA) has alerted residents of Dar es Salaam city to reveal out all those people whom they suspect to be foreigners during the process of registering people in their areas for national identification cards. An official with the Authority said yesterday in Dar es Salaam that, the registration exercise which is expected to take place by end of this month for Dar residents will be preceded by preliminary education to be issued on the importance of the exercise to the people, civil society groups and human rights activists. NIDA’s Head of Information, Thomas William told journalists who attended a five hour seminar organized by his organization that, the move behind is to get genuine people and the right citizens who are directly concerned with the national IDs and nobody else. He said the exercise will be carried in a unique manner that will involve walking along passing through one house after the other. In view of this, he has asked people to give moral cooperation in order to ensure a good success. “The work will be done between NIDA office in collaboration with the executive ward government secretaries working in various city’s suburbs” he said adding that they will all take records and relevant details of prospective applicants in a permanent registration book which will be issued by NIDA.
He said after the important details are taken, applicants will be issued with an application form to fill on which their details will be taken for scrutiny. National IDs were expected to be issued on April 26 this year, as a pilot project starting with security forces and civil servants living in Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and residents of Kilombero, Morogoro Region, but challenges related to forged school certificates and other shortcomings forced the authority to postpone the issuance date. According to him, elements of forgery of school certificates, and other documentations among other factors, have made the work more than difficult. He said adding that the authority has failed to beat their target because of these shortfalls. He said the verification of the documentations detailing the records of applicants will be checked and approved by the Immigration department to verify the nationality of a person, while RITA will be concerned with the verification of somebody’s age, after these verifications are cleared, the ID will b e issued free of charge. Describing the importance of the national IDs, he said that, these are many and noted the most important one is to get to know one’s nationality and the physical location including places of domicile. All these would be included and put in a special database for reference.Realising the importance of the National IDs, the Government of United Republic of Tanzania established the National Identification Authority (NIDA) on 1st July, 2008 in order to let Tanzanians known among the five East African countries and even to overseas countries. NIDA’s Executive Director, Dickson Maimu was recently quoted in Dar es Salaam as saying that, the process of engaging the company that would produce the IDs was in the final stages. The $176 million (about Sh200 billion) project has been delayed for decades now with documents, meetings and tendering moving from one office to the other.
He said after the important details are taken, applicants will be issued with an application form to fill on which their details will be taken for scrutiny. National IDs were expected to be issued on April 26 this year, as a pilot project starting with security forces and civil servants living in Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and residents of Kilombero, Morogoro Region, but challenges related to forged school certificates and other shortcomings forced the authority to postpone the issuance date. According to him, elements of forgery of school certificates, and other documentations among other factors, have made the work more than difficult. He said adding that the authority has failed to beat their target because of these shortfalls. He said the verification of the documentations detailing the records of applicants will be checked and approved by the Immigration department to verify the nationality of a person, while RITA will be concerned with the verification of somebody’s age, after these verifications are cleared, the ID will b e issued free of charge. Describing the importance of the national IDs, he said that, these are many and noted the most important one is to get to know one’s nationality and the physical location including places of domicile. All these would be included and put in a special database for reference.Realising the importance of the National IDs, the Government of United Republic of Tanzania established the National Identification Authority (NIDA) on 1st July, 2008 in order to let Tanzanians known among the five East African countries and even to overseas countries. NIDA’s Executive Director, Dickson Maimu was recently quoted in Dar es Salaam as saying that, the process of engaging the company that would produce the IDs was in the final stages. The $176 million (about Sh200 billion) project has been delayed for decades now with documents, meetings and tendering moving from one office to the other.
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