By Editor 
An Indigene of Ona-Ara Local Government, Ibadan, Oyo State, Ridwan Adegoke Solution has written an open letter to the state’s Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matter, Hon.(Mrs) Orisadeyi on exploitations and bribery being demanded by the officials attached to registration for National Identity Numbers.
His message was contained in an open letter he personally signed and made available to naijatodaynews.com
In his letter titled, “Theoretical Abasing By The Federal Appointees In Oyo State For the National Identity Card registration”.
According to its content, “With high sense of honour and humanity i’m writing you this open letter following the bad experience the good people of Oyo state are encountering before getting their National Identification Number”.
” Ma, the stress which our people are undergoing from the appointees in charge of the 33 local governments NIN registration in our state is so disheartening and ludicrous. This people in charge of the national identity card registration never forget this card is mostly needed urgently before they deem it fit to be wasting the precious time of ours”.
” Madam commissioner ma, almost every dealing of today in Nigeria requires national identification number, most especially when applying for government jobs”.
“Our people in oyo state are lagging behind to put in for federal jobs sequel to the national identification number they haven’t got.The police recruitment registration is ongoing and has a low number of applicants from oyo state due to this identification the interested people haven’t got”.
” Ma, let me get you informed here that the worst part of this issue is how this people in charge of the registration exploit our people, you get your national identification number only if you have thousands of naira to pay to those people in charge”.
“Defiantly ma, those who can’t avoid giving money to them have already been abased”.
” Those federal appointees whose office falls to the jurisdiction of our local government secretariat are so perfect in exploiting because they are making a clarification to our people that government did not instruct them to collect money for the registration and they wont, but they will move further in their saying by telling our people that, they were out of materials and as such, they have to pay unofficial thousands of naira or else they should wait till they have materials ready”.
“Is there not provision for the needed materials by the government?.This is how they monetize the registration and exploit people after delaying them unnecessarily”.
” Those who cannot avoid to pay usually had to go back home sadly and this had made our people to lose a lot of opportunities”.
” Ma, let me use this medium to notify you that the local government staffs are still charging our people a certain amount of #2,500 upward for issuing certificate of origin as well”.
” On behalf of good people of oyo state who are in need of the national identification number with immediate alacrity,
I hereby call your respectful office to quickly see to the points and address them in no time for the benefit of our dear state as your humble office remain the best to address our experience at every local government in the state to”.Solution concluded
