The National Identity Management Commission on Friday vowed that any vendor found extorting applicants would face prosecution.
This was disclosed by the state Director, NIMC, Henrietta Okolo, during the celebration of the 4th National Identity Day in Asaba, the Delta State capital.
According to her, “We have reported cases of vendors extorting applicants, we are investigating them and any vendor found guilty will have his or her licence withdrawn.
“If our vendors do not comply with the rules and regulations, we are not only to withdraw their licences, we will prosecute them.
“We are investigating these cases and we have asked our supervisors across the local governments to watch out and investigate.
“We are very careful in these cases so that we will not end up having a lot of legal battles.”
She added that so far about three million Nigerians had been registered in Delta State adding that efforts were ongoing to register every resident of the state.
Also, she explained that this year’s National Identity Day celebration with the theme, ‘Traditional Institutions as Critical Stakeholders for Citizens’ Mobilisation’, was targeted at taking registration to the creeks and rural areas through traditional institutions.
The NIMC boss called on residents in the state to register as well as collect their National Identity cards, stressing the importance of the NIN card.