The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in Delta state, has threatened to prosecute any NIMC vendor found extorting applicants.
The State Director of NIMC, Henrietta Okolo, stated this on Friday at the celebration of 4th National Identity day in Asaba.
She said, “We have reported cases of vendors extorting applicants, we are investigating them and any vendors found guilty will have their licence withdrawn.
“If our vendors do not comply with the rules and regulations, we are not only to withdraw their licence, we will prosecute them.
“We are investigating these cases and we had asked our supervisors across the local government to watch out and investigate.
“We are very careful in these cases so that we will not end up having a lot of legal battle.”
Okolo added that so far about 3 million Nigerians have been registered in Delta and efforts is ongoing to register everyone in the state.
The NIMC State Director urged residents in the state to register as well as collect their National Identity Card, stressing the important of the NIN card.
