Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor wants all Liberian to have the National identification card, which she said is essential to help deter frauds.
She indicates that national identification will be good for the country’s development and help provides meaningful information on the day to day activities of each and every Liberian especially for those in the rural environment.
The Vice President stress that a Mandatory biometric system will help minimize the high level of duplication and fraud in the country operational systems, such as banking, financing as well as putting halt to criminal activities and facilitations, among other things.
” I think it’s time we have a mandatory identification process, which is important in securing who you’re and this will also help us in receiving our benefits, which will be compulsory important for everyone, VP Taylor said.
She further stress that the national identification registration process should be attached to the Simcards registration, since in fact everyone has a phone and a simcard it’s important that stallholders engage the mobile operators in Liberia to have the process attached to the simcard registration to get everyone involved.
” I think, when it’s is mandatory process and attached to simcard registration getting every one involves, it will be good for our country development and to avoid fraud system.
“If you want to get a passport, that should be a requirement, getting a bank account and even getting your salary it’s essential and important to avoid fraud and a fake system that has been criminalize, she intoned.
” We need to get everyone involved the Authority of the National identification registry should get involve in PRO engagement to help improve the process, Vice President Taylor.
The Liberian Vice President Chief Dr. Jewel Howard-Taylor was speaking at a day long National Forum on Identification, held at the Ministerial Complex in oldest Congo Town, Monrovia on Wednesday, April 7, 2021.
Organize by the Governance Commission and the office of the Vice President of the Republic of Liberia Jewel-Howard-Taylor, the national Identification forum was held under the theme: synchronizing ID Systems for Digital Economy.
At the same time, the forum also brought together stallholders from various Governances Commissions including the Ministry of Finance Development and planning, the Ministry of Health, the Central Bank of Liberia among others agencies .
There were also panelists discussions on important and challenges face the National identification registration process and how to improve on it, to have a complete biometric system.
The first panel brainstorm on connections national identification ID systems to support Democracy & Development planing. Hon. J. Tiah Nagbe, the executive director of the National Identification Registry analyzed the increase in nationwide identification programs and suggested that the most salient question was how identification systems could contribute to inclusive development, not whether such systems were necessary.
He too calls for everyone to get involves in the process by getting their national identification card, which will show that they are Liberian and will clearly identify them.
