The government has ordered the National Identification
Authority (NIDA) to issue National Identification cards to all eligible
Tanzanians before the end of this financial year in July 2016.
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
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