WATCH THE VIDEO HERE The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has threatened to arrest the Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Mrs Abisoye Coker-Odusote, for insubordination. The committee said it would take the necessary steps if she fails to come in person to answer charges on refusal to pay for state-of-the-art software development project installed and deployed to Nigeria’s identity commission by a private firm, Truid Limited. According to a statement by the Media Head, Public Petitions Committee of the House of Representatives, Mr Chooks Oko, the lawmakers are acting based on allegations of breach of license agreement by NIMC and Truid Limited. According to the Chairman of the committee, Mr Mike Etaba, the Chairman of the Committee on Public Petitions, the agreement is premised on an arrangement whereby the Truid Limited funded, developed and deployed tokenization system without any financial obligation from NIMC. He explained that Truid was to get returns on the investment through patronage of service providers and the proceeds shared on an agreed ratio. This was to run for an initial period of ten years from 2021 when the software was deployed. According to the petition, things were going smoothly until the appointment of the new DG of NIMC who has been trying to truncate the agreement. Reacting to the submissions of the counsels of both the petitioners and the respondents, Chairman of the Committee, Mr Etaba frowned on the continuous absence of the NIMC Director General despite several invitations. “If she fails to show up at the next hearing of this case, we’ll have no option than to ask the Inspector General of police to bring her. How can an official of government treat constituted authority with such levity? We can no longer condone such attitude.”
House of Reps Threatens to Arrest NIMC Boss Coker-Odusote
