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CHAMS PLC, ANAMBRA GOVERNMENT SIGNS IDENTITY MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
- By Chams News-Desk
- Published 20/06/2010
As part of efforts to improve the quality and security of lives in Anambra State, the state government has engaged Chams Plc, as consultants to pilot its Identity Management Programme (IMP), which will enable it bring governance closer to the teeming populace through the availability of demographic data which will aid planning at State and Local Government levels.
The Identity Management Programme (IMP) is in line with the commitment of the Anambra State Government to meet all set millennium development goals, while enthroning fiscal responsibility as matter of necessity, given the strategic economic significance of Anambra State to the South East, and Nigeria, at large.
Speaking on the project, The Project Manager, Michael Oglegba says the scheme will improve security of lives, aid the close monitoring of the growth pace of the population, and would entail the development, management and maintenance of an automated and centralized database of all taxpaying persons in Anambra State, with the aim of improving the Internally generated revenue of the state.
Oglegba further explained that the exercise would involve filling of personal data while facilities would be made available to capture the individual’s photograph and biometrics. He said that the successful implementation of the project would extensively contribute to the state’s multi sectoral development strategy and further highlighted on the viable likely hood of notable success upon implementation as all existing revenue collection platforms were to be centralized via the Pay collect platform which represents the improved version of pay direct, a solution produced by ChamsSwitch Limited- a subsidiary of Chams Plc
Also speaking was the Special Adviser to the Governor on IGR- Mrs. Victoria Obinwa. She said that the programme was for the good of everybody as it would facilitate town planning and called on the organized private sector to support it.
The Commissioner of finance Mr. Eze Echesi, indicate that the scheme would help extensively in the easy identification of people in the state and said it was a commendable decision made by the Anambra state Government whilst expressing hope that the revolutionary innovation would be deployed in other states of the federation.
Chams Plc remains Nigeria’s leading ICT firm established in 1985 and has many firsts to its name. Chams was recently listed in the Guinness world records having erected the World’s largest Digital mall- ChamsCity equipped with over 1000 fully networked PC’s. A conspicuous contribution to the promotion of ICT in the country.
The Identity Management Programme (IMP) is in line with the commitment of the Anambra State Government to meet all set millennium development goals, while enthroning fiscal responsibility as matter of necessity, given the strategic economic significance of Anambra State to the South East, and Nigeria, at large.
Speaking on the project, The Project Manager, Michael Oglegba says the scheme will improve security of lives, aid the close monitoring of the growth pace of the population, and would entail the development, management and maintenance of an automated and centralized database of all taxpaying persons in Anambra State, with the aim of improving the Internally generated revenue of the state.
Oglegba further explained that the exercise would involve filling of personal data while facilities would be made available to capture the individual’s photograph and biometrics. He said that the successful implementation of the project would extensively contribute to the state’s multi sectoral development strategy and further highlighted on the viable likely hood of notable success upon implementation as all existing revenue collection platforms were to be centralized via the Pay collect platform which represents the improved version of pay direct, a solution produced by ChamsSwitch Limited- a subsidiary of Chams Plc
Also speaking was the Special Adviser to the Governor on IGR- Mrs. Victoria Obinwa. She said that the programme was for the good of everybody as it would facilitate town planning and called on the organized private sector to support it.
The Commissioner of finance Mr. Eze Echesi, indicate that the scheme would help extensively in the easy identification of people in the state and said it was a commendable decision made by the Anambra state Government whilst expressing hope that the revolutionary innovation would be deployed in other states of the federation.
Chams Plc remains Nigeria’s leading ICT firm established in 1985 and has many firsts to its name. Chams was recently listed in the Guinness world records having erected the World’s largest Digital mall- ChamsCity equipped with over 1000 fully networked PC’s. A conspicuous contribution to the promotion of ICT in the country.
