The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) says reports in circulation that its system crashed is erroneous and only targeted at discrediting the commission.
NIMC Director (Database), Olufemi Fabunmi said this on Tuesday at a one-day roundtable for desk/liaison officers of Nigeria Digital ID4D held in Abuja.
He said the commission’s system has never been down and also assured it has never lost any data in all the years it has been operating.
In his words, “One of the primary things that happened is service failure in connectivity between the people demanding for service, like the Immigration and our office and most times, what we found out is the message displayed on the application seems to be like a conspiracy just to discredit NIMC.
“Most times, the problem is from that service provider that is supposed to get to NIMC. In the train situation, we discovered that the internal network of the service provider for Nigeria Railway Corporation was not communicating, and they said the NIMC server is down. Meanwhile, other people are using the service.
“For the years we have been operating, we have never lost data. If for any reason, we call some people to come back and register, that’s when you say we have lost data. Our backup system has covered that, and our systems are designed for high availability.”
