The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, has announced the arrest and prosecution of some persons into selling fake national identity numbers to unsuspecting Nigerians.
The news was broken on Friday by NIMC Director General, Abisoye Coker-Odusote, at a press briefing in Abuja.
Coker-Odusote said the suspects posed as employees of the commission to perpetrate the act, saying some of them have been picked up and undergoing prosecution.
She added that some of the suspects were found out after a customer complained that she paid N120,000 to modify her birth certificate to the syndicate.
She equally stated that over 107.34 million Nigerians had been enrolled into the NIN database as of May 2024 from the 104 million recorded in December 2023.
