The new scheme is an upgrade of the former LASRRA cards
already issued. The new card will be known as “LAG ID”.
The new card which is renewable every 5 years contains a
chip that has multipurpose uses and can be accepted anywhere in many places.
At an interactive session with editors on Thursday, LASRRA’s
General Manager, Engr. Ibilola Kasunmu, said sequel to the presentation to and
subsequent approval of the State Executive Council of the reopening of the
resident registration programme, the Agency defined an overall execution plan
and had been steadily closing the respective milestones that would culminate in
the official relaunch of the citizen registration programme in the first
quarter.
She said the project had been dubbed LASRRA 2.0 with six
main objectives to identify every resident and maintain a rich database of all
residents, provision of data for social and welfare State interventions, issue
multi-purpose smart cards to residents, improve efficiency in accessing LASG
services, drive the Smart City agenda of the state government and create
opportunities for financial inclusion.
Kasunmu said the agency decided to pursue an ecosystem-based
approach, such as a cost-effective approach, which is to have private sector
inclusion to finance the costs of producing smart ID cards for residents; to
increase coverage and speed of enrollment by employing independent agents for
the enrollment exercise and creation of a service layer to support
verifications data search and value-added services
She stated that LASRRA would implement and provide access to
a core set of services, operations and processes and then work with several
partners to complete the other complementary aspects of the programme.
One of such partners, she revealed is Sterling Bank, the
pioneer financial of the programme, that would ensure the printing of the cards
after enrollment had been concluded.
The LASRRA GM added that the agency’s database, containing
both demographic and biometric data, of all residents in Lagos State would
henceforth aid effective planning and allocation of resources for security,
education, health and financial Inclusion.
On the agency’s landmark achievements, Kasunmu said they
included deployment of enrolment and validation portals for a timely enrolment
and validation processes; reopening and deployment of 57 LASRRA outlets and 16
enrolment partners; Cloud infrastructure for online real-time enrolment data
upload and robust backend database infrastructure and solution.
Others are: ABIS deduplication solution for unique ID for
all residents, API gateway development for secure data validation with public
and private sectors, development of 28 applet Identity Card supporting multiple
use cases like payment, transport, pension and so on and onboarding of Sterling
Bank as issuance partner with commitment to issue the first three million
Resident cards.
Kasunmu further explained that the Lagos Resident ID card
has provisions for 28 applets out of which three are activated at the point of
collecting the card.
She revealed the three active applets to include Electronic
Identity Information (e-ID), EMV Payment and Transport – LAMATA, adding that
the remaining 25 applets would be implemented with both public and private
partners in subsequent phases.
“We have already engaged a few under the following headers:
Health Application – LASHMA; Pension Application – LASPEC and Collections – LCC,”
she said.
With the card, she said commuters could use it in payment
and access to public transport, payment for tolls and traffic offences and
fines; and could use it for financial inclusion, payment/wallets, social
benefits, elderly benefits/discounts, disability benefits/discounts, medical
benefits/health insurance, pensions, social subsidies, among others.
Other uses by students for education included: ID to exam
halls, access to public library – book borrowing, access and payments for
transport – student rates, bursaries and access to discounted school hostels,
while residents could use the card for identity verification, access to state
infrastructure, libraries, leisure parks, stadiums, museums; Public Car Parks,
Bike/Car sharing rides, free parking and acceptable ID for public services in
Nigeria – KY.
So far, Kasunmu disclosed that the agency currently has on
its database 4.46 million people who had registered since the scheme began
2013, out of which 3.25 million are subject to validation for proof of life,
with 1.04 million cards ready for printing.
Ajibola Abari, Head of Registration, LASRRA, who spoke on
the enrollment strategy overview,said it is likened to four buckets and
categories totaling 65 enrolment partners, with partners required to procure
equipment for and coordinate enrollment stations.
Abari explained that the areas of coverage by the enrollment
partners would be in all local governments and local council development areas,
adding that only in Apapa, Ajeromi/Ifelodun, Amuwo-Odofin, Badagry and Ojo LGs
that enrolment partners had not been assigned.
Jide Agbaje, Technical Consultant to LASRRA, who spoke on
‘LASRRA 2.0 Backend Infrastructure, solutions and security Overview,’ said
residents’ data were 100 percent secured and protected.
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