CRIME CONTROL INFORMATION FLOW IN A RESTRUCTURED NIGERIA NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM ELECTION AND CENSUS FRAUD SOLUTION
ABSTRACT
An effective national identification system is a necessity in any national government for the proper implementation and execution of its governmental policies and duties. This thesis aims at restructuring Nigeria national identification system so as to make it effective in addressing its political and civil problems, which ranges from manipulated census count figures and electoral fraud to economic fraud and civil problems. These problems are arguably due to Nigeria’s ineffective national identification system.
We proposed in this thesis, a restructured Nigeria national identification system to help address these political and civil problems. The proposed identification system is designed such that it will help to address identification problems in general, reduce elections and census count fraud to a minimum and be useful for the execution of policies in sectors of the economy.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The concept of identification has always been a part of mankind. Verifying the identity of a person, a body or an organization has become so important in today’s world that its absence would only mean a world in chaos. Our world,today is a technology and business driven world that can only continue to remain the way it is or get better if
identification is given its due place. Identification has become so vast that it embraces every aspect of our lives, be it
social or technological. While several nations are considering improving their National identification system by
integrating recent identification technology into it, others that do not have a National identification system in place are
debating on having one or not.
National identification system has become the subject of public debate. To facilitate various activities of any National
government, all citizens and organizations should be uniquely identified. Any governmental activities such as social
security services, public administration, Medicare services, tax collection, fair National elections, transparent National
census count and much more cannot be effectively facilitated in the absence of a good National identification system.
A successful National identification scheme is greatly dependent on public trust and should be carefully and
sensitively implemented with respect to the social and technological maturity of the nation in question.
Technology has become more pervasive and affordable nowadays that most identification system is technology
based. There are a lot of ongoing research and design that are geared towards personal identification. All these are
supposedly to make identification more effective and secure.
There is no such thing as a totally secure National identification system, nor can there be a system that is completely
immune to the risk of taking in multiple or false identities. It is known that biometrics can be spoofed and registration
data falsely represented. There can be problems at both human and technological level. In this thesis, we propose a new National identification structure for Nigeria to help address its identification problems
in general, reduce elections and census count fraud to a minimum and be useful for the execution of policies in sectors of the economy.
Objectives
Having a National identification system in place in any National government is one thing, but having an effective and
approximately secure National identification system is another. This thesis work mainly aims at restructuring Nigeria’s
National identification system and proposing a data flow pattern in the restructured system to help tackle the
problems of electoral fraud and manipulated census count figures.
Motivation
I was deeply motivated into restructuring Nigeria’s National Identification system after looking into the National
identification system of several developed nations. During the first few months of my studies in Sweden, I became
increasingly aware of how effective its National identification system was. This led to my looking into the national
identification systems of other countries with a good national identification system. These national identification
systems can easily account for the approximately correct number of citizens and legal immigrants in the countries in question, and the identification of any person was convenient and easy. Thus it occurred to me that if such a good
identification system is put in place in Nigeria, it can help solve her political problems of electoral fraud and manipulated census count figures, and as well as address her civil problems.
CRIME CONTROL INFORMATION FLOW IN A RESTRUCTURED NIGERIA NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM ELECTION AND CENSUS FRAUD SOLUTION