Oct 27th, 2009
“Kaadi Igbe-ayo”, Ondo State Residency Card in Pilot Stage
The Ondo State Residency Card (Kaadi Igbe-ayo) is a statewide card which, on issuance, is capable of serving as an interface in all interactions between government and the Ondo State Residents. It aims at helping government to take the statistics of all basic features of its residents; it will also help government to deploy the basic welfare packages and development projects that are acceptable to the good people of this State.
Other objectives include the following:
- Economic planning;
- General administration;
- Security;
- Welfare Services provision and management;
- Other Social service provision;
- Tax management;
- Monitoring and citizens’ feed back; and,
- Transparency and Accountability in government
The State Residency Card (Kaadi Igbeayo) is designed to contain and store the following information:
The basic Bio Data:
Cardholder’s name, address, next-of-kin, contact address and telephone number, date of birth, State ID-card number; Allergies, peculiar medical conditions, preferred medical care centre, preferred doctor’s number, State MediCare number, five most previous medical calls.
Socio-economic data:
Cardholder’s present employment status and contact address; cardholder’s educational data as registered with the State; current State taxation status and State Welfare Programmes indicators.
State welfare services:
State transport service fares, Primary Health Care Delivery service tariffs, State water and waste service delivery tariffs, etc.
The State Residency Card will serve as a tool for proper management of all residents’ profiles and other related matters in Ondo State. Data to be stored on the card are in two categories:
Static Data – These data can not be changed after card issuance. Such data are mainly Bio-Data for each cardholder.
Dynamic Data – Dynamic Data are changeable under secured conditions. Such data facilitate the use of the card for transactions. This category includes Health Data, Tax Data, Employment Data, Vocational and Professional data, Educational data, etc.
Implementation commenced October 7th at Ifedore LGA.
- Ifedore has been chosen as pilot for the project. Publicity is on for the project.
- Final field work starts in Ifedore on October 29, 2009.
- To implement this Residency Card Project, SITA will be recruiting four hundred (4000) Volunteers from the Ondo State Volunteer Corps that were inaugurated earlier this year.
Source: Project coordinator, Mr. Funsho Aluko.
16 Responses to ““Kaadi Igbe-ayo”, Ondo State Residency Card in Pilot Stage”
A great initiative that needs to be highlighted and presented on the state official website for the whole world to see!
Thanks for bringing this out to the fore. I read about in brief on 234Next.com last week and wonder what it’s about. It will be good to have a detailed white paper on this project, and throw it out to the public and relevant bodies for input (ideas/resources/collaboration). This is one project the state agency will benefit from a collaborative input.
Niyi: The official State web portal is currently undergoing a total reconstruction. When completed, details of the “Kaadi Igbe Ayo” and other people-oriented projects being embaked upon in the State will be available as requested
@ Remi:
I don’t know who you are, but you sound like a state employee. Why was it that it was just yesterday (Nov 11), that the State IT guys woke up to their responsibilities and put a place holder on the State website — that had been broken and usable for more than 10 weeks?
Second, why put the state into a total information blackout by pulling the website down when the old website could be in place while the new is being developed?
Third, The old site was broken, and I’m sure someone messed the codes…why?
@Niyi; tanks 4 being so frank. If people say it as it is, govt officials will be on their toes. It is wrong to have tampered with a website that was working until the new one was ready. That’s what should have been done. Get the new one ready, then replace old one. Not the way they did it withpout caring anyone was using that. My young ones all compalined they couldn’t get necessary info for their research simply because the site was renderred embarasingly useless 4 so long. pls all in charge should put new one up quick.
If it took the Alagbaka IT boys more than 2 months to open their eyes, I wonder how long it will take them to build a new portal…and at what cost? And once the site is up, we will see how often it gets updated.
What beats me is if the state is taking of piloting a complex setup as a digital ID card system, and it finds it difficult to manage a simple state web portal…something is not right somewhere. Is the Governor on seat, is he in the know, at all?
I’m getting to conclude that some of the people surrounding Mr Governor are not capable managers as all, less than 12 months into the play.
The Governor has no hand in this at all. It is the same problem all over the country. Even in Abuja when you have times that the President sincerely want positive action, you see revelations later how some officials sabotaged such good intentions. It is time we start asking questions from officials of govt and not just the governors or presidents. The Governor has giving his own instruction. It is the people in control that we need to face. The card is a gud programme if implemented very well.
The Governor is the Chief Executive, the buck ends on his table. He’s responsible ultimately, he needs to know what is happening in his administration.
On the state ID, it’s an excellent idea, but it’s just a tool and does not mean much by itself.
@Niyi; I agree with you 200% on the issues raised. It may not strike the officials that it is the peak of embarrassment for the state indigenes not to be able to visit their website for 1 hour talkless of 3 months. I am only saying that most governors are complete illiteterates when it comes to computer issues. So I hold the men incharge who do understand the implication of putting “THIS PORTAL IS CURRENTLY UNDER RECONSTRUCTION
Please come back soon” responsible bcos people need their website every second. We should infact sympatise with these governors. Imagine that this forum by Mahogany Force is down for 3 weeks! Now try imagine closing the entire state web down wen common sense says you only need to compelte your new design on your local system and spend 1 day uploading the new one. Are we saying d governor knows this technology details?
@ Siloco – Okay, the Governor may not know, but it’s his job to KNOW! It is his job to have competent managers to help him fulfill his mandate!
An side: I read the state had a branding event over the weekend and launched a new State Crest (or logo as being erroneously reported in the papers). Now wouldn’t it be great to see what my state crest looks like?
Admin AND all in the House. what’s dis about N27 billion supplimentary budget for 2009 when we have barely a month to 2010? can’t all budgets go into 2010 if the items are important? has this not been critisied before against agagu on this space b4? which adviser is putting this silly suggestions up? we also need info on the rumoured resignatn of the Finance commisioner.
@Siloco, in answer to your last sentence please read below report as given by 234next. From my first hand info on the matter while at Ile-Oluji last week, I dare say the report rings very true. I hope others will be able to learn from this. Political rivalry especially in house is very unhealthy. Emi o ni paro. When you are dead, it is finished. I pray we all have more reverence for the sanctity of human existence and stop all forms of political thuggery especially in Nigeria. Mr Akinterinwa was indeed gallant in tendering his resignation. Ile-Oluji indigenes, please please dont spoil a good thing for we stand to lose more if violence in politics is not decried amongst our people. I am aware that the Palace and High Chiefs have been doing a lot of work trying to sort out the problems before it escalated. We the people owe it to our community not to allow violence to mar our peaceful habitation and existence:
Mimiko fires finance commissioner
By Ayodeji Moradeyo
November 27, 2009 02:11AMT
The Ondo State commissioner for Finance, Wale Akinterinwa yesterday morning resigned his appointment and membership of the state executive council via a letter sent to the state governor, Olusegun Mimiko.
The state governor, Olusegun Mimiko,consequently, approved the appointment of the Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget,
Mr. Akin Adaramola as the acting commissioner in the finance ministry.
Mr Akinterinwa, a former banker, hails from Ile Oluji local government area of the state.
What happened?
Though no reason was stated in the letter of resignation, NEXT, however, gathered that his decision might not be unconnected with a political disturbance that broke out at Ile Oluji where two people were seriously injured last weekend.
The clash broke out among two factions of the ruling Labour Party, who are locked in a battle to control the council area. The battle for supremacy in the council was said to be largely between the former Commissioner and the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on multilateral affairs, Pius Osanyikanmi. An aide to Mr. Mimiko said the fracas embarrassed and infuriated his boss, who vowed to deal with whoever was implicated in the incident. He said the governor, who later ruled that the former finance commissioner bore the major blame for the disturbance, ordered for his sack.
He was later said to offer the ex-commissioner a soft landing by asking him to resign.
One of the media aides of the Governor, who asked not to be quoted because the official spokesman for the governor has travelled out of the country, said Akinterinwa’s resignation has no political undertone.
The aide, who spoke in a telephone interview, said: “As a leader, when there was a crisis in your community, somebody has to take responsibility. That was the price paid by the commissioner.
“He decided to quit the cabinet when he knew that it was the best thing to do at that time.
This is the first time a political office holder will consider a resignation option when he feels that something is actually wrong.”
A source close to the former commissioner said Mr Akinteriwa willingly resigned from the state cabinet due to the governor’s preference for the Senior Special Assistant.
Replacement takes office
The Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party in the state, Seyi James said the reason why the commissioner resigned was best known to him. He also said the resignation had no political undertone.
“In as much as I won’t like to comment too much on the resignation of the commissioner, all I know is that it doesn’t have political undertone and that the reason is best known to the man himself,” he said.
When NEXT called Mr Akinterinwa around 1.03pm on Thursday, he said: “The reason for my resignation has been explicitly mentioned in the news and there is nothing more to add.”
The State Commissioner for Information, Ranti Akerele said Mr Akinterinwa left the cabinet because of the hostility that crept up in his native town, following a clash between two rival groups in the town.
He said the former commissioner was responsible enough to know that such a development in his community could easily be misinterpreted.
“This is a young government that is eager to do what it preaches, we want to maintain the peaceful atmosphere in the state so that the people’s confidence in government is not eroded,” he said. “Government is clearly convinced that he (Akinterinwa) has no direct link with the perpetrators of the crisis, he is in no way responsible for the development in Ile-Oluji.”
Mr Akerele said Mr. Adaramola would replace the departed official pending the appointment of a substantive commissioner. He said the new appointment takes immediate effect.
What exactly is it with the Finance commissioner post in our state – Alasoadura, Akinterinwa; a poisoned chalice?
I implore people to watch a video posted on YouTube, mainly of some political hangers on mistreating some journalists in Ekiti state during the gubernatorial election last April. – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fToXhemnnPU.
Please type this into Youtube search ‘Ekiti State Governor’s Goons Torture Journalists For Witnessing Fraud’
@T.A thanks for the video link which I happen to watch on a Sunday morning before preparing for church. I know today where to concentrate my prayers. I WEEP FOR NIGERIA. MY HEART BLEEDS FOR A DEGENERATE COUNTRY RIDDLED WITH DEBASED FORM OF THUGGERY, MORE ANIMLISTIC THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE. What would anyone have done to be so brutalised. I am sure that even this is nothing compared to some other unreported violence against the innocent. Arent you presumed innocent until proven guilty?
“I’ll blast your head”
“You are a bastard”
“In a killoruko motto yen – bus”
Knocks on heads
Slaps in faces
Shoes on head – HABA NIGERIA. This is not Ekiti State Governor goons torturing journalists, for in torure there is an intent and order to it in an attempt to collect info or so. This one na ANIMALISTIC BRUTALITY, worse than what stone age cannibals do. So tell me WHY BITE A POOR MAN LIKE A DOG?
How I wish the video focussed more on the faces of the bastards perpetrating the violence. I read that a Pastor was among the degenerates. I credit the journalists for maintaining their stance and pleading their cause. My heart weeps – O JO SIR DONT KILL ME…
O JO SIR, TO ALL LEADERS AND PEOPLE IN POWER – STOP OPPRESSING THE INNOCENT. STOP KILLING THE POOR PEOPLE. STOP GIVING OUR COUNTRY A BAD NAME. After doing this you then occupy best seats beaming evil smiles and carrying on a holier than thou attitude. You enter planes and fly abroad and mix with learned people, but inwardly you remain so undeucated, babaric and evil.
PLEASE MY PEOPLE EVEN IF YOU HAVE RETURNED FROM CHURCH OR MOSQUE WHEN YOU READ THIS, PLEASE GO ON YOUR KNEES AND PRAY HARD FOR NIGERIA. WE HAVE A BIG PROBLEM ON OUR HANDS. LEADERSHIP PROBLEMS. I rest assured in one belief – GOD WILL JUDGE AND JUDGE ACCORDINGLY AND EVERY EVIL PERSON WILL BE SERVED THEIR JUST DESERTS.
MY HEART WEEPS FOR NIGERIA. GOD SAVE OUR SOULS FROM HELL. But I will not weep like the ungodly that have lost hope and faith in God. There is hope for Nigeria, even if it be a revolution that would rid our country of all these problems. I keep on remembering Ghan pre and post Jerry Rawlings.
@ Siloco – Okay, the Governor may not know, but it’s his job to KNOW! It is his job to have competent managers to help him fulfill his mandate!
An side: I read the state had a branding event over the weekend and launched a new State Crest (or logo as being erroneously reported in the papers). Now wouldn’t it be great to see what my state crest looks like?