The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has issued a stern warning to front-end enrolment partners of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), stating that involvement in fraudulent National Identification Number (NIN) registrations could result in a seven-year prison sentence upon conviction.
The warning was delivered on Thursday in Abuja during a security briefing organised by NIMC for its enrolment partners in collaboration with the Office of the National Security Adviser and other security agencies.
Assistant Director at the ICPC, Mark Faison, emphasised that enrolment agents must strictly adhere to the terms of their engagement, describing any deviation as an abuse of office and an act of corruption.
“If you abuse the privilege you have been given, that amounts to abuse of office because you are operating on behalf of NIMC to register Nigerians. And if you do otherwise, you are abusing the trust that has been placed in you,
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