But the competent authorities respond that, for those who have not been able to make updates, the cards will be printed from the data of the Administrative Census for Civil Status (Ravec)
Last Friday, it’s about 10:30 a.m. On this last day of the Nina data update operation, we are in Dravéla in Commune III of the District of Bamako. The operation was still in progress. Housed in buildings not yet completed, opposite the premises of the municipality, the enrollment site welcomes many people this morning. Some are there for the Nina data update and some are there for the Ravec. The purpose for both is to obtain the future biometric card. Sitting among a group of women a little behind, waiting for her turn, Ms. Keïta Aïssata Niang came from the Daoudabougou district (Commune V) to put update its data Nina. She arrived since 6 am. Our interlocutor asks the authorities to extend the deadline for the operation to allow many of our compatriots to update their data. “Because on this occasion of the month of Ramadan, many people will not be able to come, especially women, most of whom prepare meals for breaking the fast,” argues Mrs. Keïta Aïssata Niang.
Head leaning against the elbow, Ousmane Dembélé dozes on a brick. This young man, in his twenties, has also come since dawn. He pleads for the extension of the operation because it is difficult to have the individual descriptive sheets which serve as the document for enlistment, in the absence of the Nina card.
15 OR 20 PEOPLE PER DAY- According to our interlocutor, the agents in charge of issuing these cards take only 15 or 20 people per day. Therefore, the teenager asks the authorities to extend the deadline for at least three months to allow citizens to enlist. Some users deplore the difficulty of access to enrollment sites. In the crowd massed in front of the site, it is rumored that you have to have a “long arm” or pay money to be served quickly.
The team leader of the Commune III site, Ibrahima Alfousseyni Maïga, recognizes that the deadline for the process must be extended. “In reality, there are many people who have not been able to update. I think this operation must continue”, concedes Ibrahima Alfousseyni Maïga who deplores the fact that on their arrival, all the users want the team to take them and never come back. “We can’t take everyone in one day. So we have to schedule people,” he explains. stop work. Unlike the Commune III site, here there was no update on Friday. The reason ? Every Friday, the team leaders in charge of the operation at the level of the police stations and brigades in Bamako must deposit the data collected during the week at the Civil Status Data Processing Center (CTDEC), confides to us a agent.
In a press release published last February, the Ministry of Security and Civil Protection recalled that the Nina data update operation will continue until March 31. The document specified that after this period, in view of the constraints linked to compliance with the timetable for the production and delivery of the secure national biometric identity card, the said card will be systematically printed from the data already existing Ravec. The department also informed that the first issuance of this card will be free for all, stressing that its renewal will be paid.
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Source: L’Essor
