{"id":5934,"date":"2013-07-03T23:25:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T23:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/zinox-technologies-to-supply-card-readers-to-inec\/"},"modified":"2013-07-03T23:25:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T23:25:29","slug":"zinox-technologies-to-supply-card-readers-to-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/zinox-technologies-to-supply-card-readers-to-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"Zinox Technologies to supply card readers to INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N459 million for INEC to procure 17,000 customised and configured smart card readers to authenticate voters during elections.<\/p>\n

The contract for the procurement was awarded to Messrs Zinox Technologies Ltd at the rate of N27,000 per smart card reader with a completion period of six months<\/p>\n

The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, disclosed this while briefing State House Correspondents on the outcome of FEC meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja.<\/p>\n

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Maku said the council\u2019s approval was in line with the resolve of the Jonathan administration to ensure free, fair and credible elections.<\/p>\n

According to Maku, the smart card readers to be deployed to polling stations during elections would be used to verify the identity cards of registered voters.<\/p>\n

“The proposal is clearly to ensure that all those who have fake identity cards are identified in all future elections.<\/p>\n

“So, when you bring your voter card and there are doubts, it will pass through a process to verify the authenticity of the cards.<\/p>\n

“Since the voter cards now have biometrics, it will be easy for the smart card readers to verify the identity of those who come out to vote during elections.<\/p>\n

“This is to completely stop incidence of double voting which often occur during elections.<\/p>\n

“It is also to ensure that those who vote are citizens that have been duly registered to vote in specific constituency where the election might be holding,\u2019\u2019 he said..<\/p>\n

Maku said the approval was for the first batch and there would be subsequent two installments to cover the numbers needed for all polling centres in the country.<\/p>\n

The Minister of Youth Development, Alhaji Inuwa Abdulkadir, said he briefed the council on the performance of his Ministry in 2012.<\/p>\n

He said the ministry had created the avenue for youths to be self-reliant through a number of agro-business projects.<\/p>\n

The minister said that more than 700 youths had been trained in the agricultural sector and that most of the beneficiaries had become employers of labour.<\/p>\n

He said the ministry introduced value orientation programme in 2012 to stem the tide of get-rich-quick syndrome among the youths.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Abdulkadir said the ministry partnered with Gombe State Government to curb the proliferation of thugs called “yan kalare\u2019\u2019 in the state.<\/p>\n

“Over 100,000 NYSC members were trained in agricultural enterprises and in a number of cases, beneficiaries were given grants and kits.<\/p>\n

“Similarly, 250,000 corps members were deployed last year from which 247,000 participated in different programmes.<\/p>\n

“Another 200,000 also benefitted from the entrepreneurial program,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Abdulkadir said the Federal Government was committed to making the NYSC scheme more robust and relevant.<\/p>\n

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