The committee added that the current management of the NIS initiated the domestication process, which requires 90 to 180 days to fully implement the process and other processes of the passport, which will solve the issue of scarcity.
Listing its findings during the probe, the committee explained that an e-passport project is technology based and not a security printing task, as with the Machine-Readable Passport era; that the security printing aspect of an e-passport constitutes only 13 per cent of the various components of an e-passport booklet; and that the domestication of the manufacturing of e-passport booklets does not eliminate the need for foreign exchange and importation of components.
It stated, “The Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Plc is not a technology company; MINT is a security printer and cannot be an e-passport solution provider. Therefore, it requires a technology partner if it must go into the e-passport project.
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