Speaking shortly after visiting the NIDA offices in Dar es Salaam yesterday, Minister for Home Affairs, Charles Kitwanga said all people who are above 18 years old are supposed to have a National ID by the end of the government’s financial year.
“The fifth phase government wants to ensure it reaches its goal for the country to attain middle income status, issuing all Tanzanians with IDs is part of the process,” he said
“I also ordered the National Identification Authority (NIDA) to bring their strategic plan to solve challenges they face in issuing the National IDs,” he added.
Kitwanga who is also the Member of Parliament for Misungwi constituency ordered NIDA to use the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) machines from National Electoral Commission (NEC) to help complete the exercise.
“NIDA told me that they have several challenges including shortage of machines for registrations, I told them to borrow the machines from NEC to complete the exercise,” he said. “I also advised NIDA to use manpower from TAMISEMI and provide them with short course training...we want this exercise to complete soon,” noted the minister.
NIDA Director General Dickson Maimu said more than 6.1 million Tanzanians have been registered since the exercise began in February, 2013.
“We will give the Minister our strategic plan on Monday and we will include the number of registration machines that we need to complete the exercise as well as the funds and a number of workers,” he said.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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