The Federal Government of Nigeria, says banditry and Kidnapping have drastically reduced, since the introduction of the National Identification Number.
Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami said this in Abuja, on Thursday, while outlining his achievements since he assumed office in 2019.
He said before the introduction of the policy, one could hardly go a month without the news of kidnapping and attacks by bandits. But since its introduction, both crimes have reduced to the barest minimum.
“From end of September 2019, to 2020, you will discover that even kidnapping and banditry reduced to the barest minimum. It was a time that hardly can you spend one month or more without hearing about kidnapping,” he said.
“The more you come up with policies to make the system effective the more criminals will come up with another strategy to compromise the policy,” he added.
He further explained that when he was assigned to supervise the sector on 24, August 2019, unregistered, and partial registered sims were being used to perpetrate crime in the country and that Nobody knew the total number of unregistered sims.
